OK WAYLANDER dont bite by head off, sorry bout the components. Asus barebome vintage ae-1, k8s mboard, asus 250 pwr supply, maxtor 120gb hd, creative cdrw, linksys wireless g pcicard, coolermaster 80mm cpu fan amd certified, (thats what newegg said) athlon 64 sempron 2800 1.6 g 754pin 256k, mem 128 ddr 2100 cl2.5. Ok there you have it. Now the problem is that the system boots up, cpu gets hot, hdd works. power supply is working fine, bios screen is up I get one beep which is good. All seems fine the motherboard seems to be working, but the damn cpu fan will not work in the cpu fan board connector it spins up on powrup but shuts off after 2 seconds. it works in other fan connectors. I am starting to think its the cpu fan connector on the board but why does it initially spin up an pwerup then shut down. DAMN CRAZY! Built this system for my kids so they will stay off of my power build. So what do you think?