NEED some BIG time help here with processor

/motherboard.

What happened. I transfered all my old guts to a new case so I can take it into work as a work computer. I have a new setup that I built myself (first computer I built). So I thought no biggie to just take the guts from the old computer and re-build it into the new case (that I can't stand but will be fine for work). I have to put a new CPU fan on so I do with a little bit of the silver stuff, geez, can't find it anywhere right now, so I don't know the exact name, it's the stuff that you put between the processor chip and the fan. Anyway, so I do that and then I mount it into the new case with the standoffs and then I load all the drives in and what not (sound card, video, ect....) and then boot it up. Keyboard and mouse freeze up on the boot up, so I am stuck. So I reboot and hit F1 and go into the BIOS, freezes up. So I did this numerous times. Today I go to Fry's, buy a new hard drive, mouse, keyboard, battery for the MB and nothing is making any difference. So it's either the MB or the processor. The procesor is an Intel Pentium III/1 Ghz. The motherboard is an Intel. The system is a Gateway system.

So if anyone can come up with any other ideas that won't cost me any more money that would be just great. :-)

Thanks kindly

Richard ;-)~

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