System Restarts Help!!

[Clayton]

Over the last few weeks I have noticed that when I restart my system it
starts up and loads the DELL BIOS screen and then the computer restarts
again and I get the message "We apologize for the inconvenience" blah blah
and I then select Start Windows normally and it's ok, it doesn't happen
everytime just 50% of the time.
I have already formatted and reinstalled Windows again, ran memory and HDD
tests all reported ok.
What could be doing this?
thanks

 

[Malke]

Over the last few weeks I have noticed that when I restart my system
it starts up and loads the DELL BIOS screen and then the computer
restarts again and I get the message "We apologize for the
inconvenience" blah blah and I then select Start Windows normally and
it's ok, it doesn't happen everytime just 50% of the time.
I have already formatted and reinstalled Windows again, ran memory and
HDD tests all reported ok.
What could be doing this?
thanks

Flaky power supply?

Malke

 

[Clayton]

After close inspection of the motherboard I see 6 capacitors on the left of
the cpu socket are swallow and leaking so I guess that is my problem, how
would one apply thermal grease to the cpu before applying the heat sink? do
I apply a ball of grease the size of a pea to the cpu and apply the heatsink
or apply it to the cpu and spread it out even, covering the cpu before
applying the heatsinik?

 

[Joe Wright]

After close inspection of the motherboard I see 6 capacitors on the left of
the cpu socket are swallow and leaking so I guess that is my problem, how
would one apply thermal grease to the cpu before applying the heat sink? do
I apply a ball of grease the size of a pea to the cpu and apply the heatsink
or apply it to the cpu and spread it out even, covering the cpu before
applying the heatsinik?

http://www.badcaps.com

 

[Clayton]

Thanks Joe, interesting reading, Dell is going to send out another MB from a
different batch, if that makes any difference!!