XP Installation Shutdown

I am building a new system for my friend. I am trying to install windows xp professional on the machine but it doesn't get past 34 minutes complete and then the whole system willshut down.I've tried other discs, and i've tried a windows xp home edition disk.i have no idea what is wrong.

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All Intel processors are built with a thermal sensor to detect if they are overheating and will shut the machine down in the event of it. Some AMD motherboards (ASUS) have thermal sensors built into them that provide the same functionality. A bad add-in peripheral or bios mis-managed hardware (as well as a shotty motherboard), or faulty device driver can cause a system to shutdown during Windows setup (or in general) but this will only usually happen when the device is being activated such as boot-up, Windows detection, or utillizing it.

If I'm not mistaken format for the hardrive is done in text mode install of Windows setup and that doesn't display a time remaining. If I remember correctly the first thing that Windows does in gui mode setup is to start detecting devices which would indicate the latter of
my two given reasons.

One thing that you can try is to reset your bios to setup defaults. If that doesn't work try disabling anything you don't need in the bios.

Also since you mention you are building this system the last thing you should start doing is ripping out add-in cards to see which one solves the problem. Also changing the order the cards are in might fix it as well.