P4 Prescott 3GHz - ASUS P4P800 SE

i have the following system:

- Intel P4 Prescott 3.0Gz/1Mb L2 Cache/800MHz FSB
- ASUS P4P800SE BIOS ver. 1012.001
- DDR 400 1Gb, 1 stick
- ATI RADEON 9200
- Terra Tec PCI sound card
- 2 HDD WD 7200rpm, 80Gb and 250Gb
- CD-RW
- DVD-RW
- 350W ATX source
- WINXP Corporate SP2

The problem is that when entering Windows the HDD stop/start and the sistem freeze, or the sistem is shuting down. The simptoms are the same if i unplug the optical devices and one of HDD's.
The same system work flawless with my old CPU INTEL CELERON 1.7GHz/128kb L2 cache/ 400MHz FSB.
The P4 CPU works fine with a MSI Motherboard.

Please advise if there is a incompatibility betwen P4 Prescott/1Mb L2 cache/800FSB and the P4P800SE Motherboard.

Thank's

Sounds like maybe it's overheating? That is just about how long it takes a Prescott to start getting too warm. Double check your heatsink and fan to be sure you have them mounted correctly, and the fan is working.

The issue is a known problem between the Prescott cpu and XP SP2. I know the link below i'm referring you to shows C0 as the stepping with an issue but that is false. I have an E0 3.4ghz prescott and have experienced the array of odd lockups.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885626/en-us

That knowledge base article explains it, and this patch fixes it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

I went through all my hardware with a detailed testing method and well couldn't find any hardware problem. So i began searching for prescott specific issues and bingo. My board happens to be a Asus P4P800 SE as well I even reverted back 1 bios level to see if it would help.