Blue screens on Dell 8300?

Question

Hey. I guess I am an intermediate level user. I have taken apart, added and upgraded components of my comp. Found out the hard way that dell likes it proprietary, after I bought a good power supply (added good vid card...wanted adequate juice)

Anyways. I have gotten two bs's with mem failure. a - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA , and
a DRIVER_TRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ...memory dumps, then manually powered off.
I have run as much as I could of memtest86, about 3 hours, no errors, 3 passes. 8k,512k,1500mb ram. I am not sure which tests to select or how long to run.
Heat concerns....I have an internal fan for the video card, and the exhaust hood over the heat sink, meaning it has a small negative pressure. Did a complete cleanout inside a few hours ago, and saw that 4 caps along the heatsink, hood side, were bulging upwards slightly and had small amounts..a little drop size, of clay colored substance. dang. They could be my prob?

Can leaving the case cracked open 2 inches help with keeping heat down to ambient temp? Would that stop the faults?

Answer 1

No red lines during the MEMTEST? Test 4 is the hardest test. I usually run mine on new built computers overnight for burn in and to see if the memory is up to snuff. Those capacitors are "bulged" they are NO GOOD! You can replace them yourself if you have the nerve and a good soldering iron. It's way cheaper to replace caps than to get another mobo. Take that "Exhaust hood" off and replace it with an 80mm case fan blowing inward onto the processor. Use the screws from the hood to mount the fan. Replace the CPU fan with a Zalman heatsink/fan and throughly clean the old thermal grease off of the CPU, then use "Arctic Silver" thermal grease when you install the Zalman.