Re: Computer keeps restarting and then freezes up

I checked the motherboard and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary.
The caps are in place and not bent or anything...

I eventually let the computer cool down to room temp and started it.
It went to the desktop without me seeing the 5-option screen so I was
glad. It stayed at the desktop for maybe 2 min then restarted itself.
I let the computer start by itself without me choosing an option. It
didn't even get to the 5-option screen before it restarted. I let it
start again and this time it went to the 5-option screen and the timer
went to 0 but right when the screen changed the computer restarted. On
the next restart it froze before it got to the 5-option screen.

I let it cool down again after about 5 min and started it. I went into
the BIOS and let it sit in the "PC Health Status" menu where the CPU
temp is shown. The Current CPU Temp was 48C when I first loaded up.
It's at 61C right now and it hasn't restarted yet.
I have had it on for about 20 min now. I am assuming that I need to
make the CPU work in Windows to see if it is getting into high temps.
But for now it's staying in BIOS quite nicely.

It takes about 1 min for my pc to completely boot up to the desktop. I
am letting it sit for about 5-10 min so it can cool down. All the fans
are running, including PSU, CPU, case fans, and video card fan.

I am going to clean out the heatsink on my processor because I can see
a little buildup between the fan and the processor. Hopefully that
will work. Thank you for the quick responses.

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