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Asus p8z68 pro v build BSOD with nothing running

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MeatSauce

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New system:
P8z68 pro v
Intel 2600k 3.4
16 GB corsair 1600 ram
Ocz vertex 120 GB SSD
Thermal take 1000w power supply
LG blu ray DVD burner
Only the mobo, CPU and blu ray burner is new.

Formatted the hard drive to get rid of the earlier os, installed windows 7 pro 64 fine.
All os updates applied.
Have been running world of Warcraft on it with no issues.
Used the asus ai utility to overclock with the auto tuning option, fast setting.
Left the system alone for a while as I was watching blizzcon on tv.
When I came back to the system after several hours of it running fine, it had restarted and lost the connection to the c drive. Tried restarting and same issue, no c drive. I reseated the hard drive connectors and started up no problem. After about 5 minutes of Firefox running on the system, it froze and then BSOD.
Restarted and went into the bios, no c drive in the boot priority, but it did show up in the boot options, so I booted from it. Went into windows and same thing, froze after 5 minutes.
Now it will freeze even when nothing is running on the system.
It also seems to lose the drive in the boot priority occasionally.
I monitored the CPU temp and voltage on the last boot and while the cou got as low as 15 and 0.860 v, it froze after the temp got to 36 and voltage was 1.2.
The temp was fluctuating between 20 and 30 before that, so I am not taking the monitoring utility at its word.

Sorry about the wall of text! Any suggestions?
 
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FIRST thing I'd do is to reset the CMOS to its factory settings.

Remove the battery and move the jumper pins. (shouldn't have to do both, but I always do anyway...be sure to un-plug the power supply first.)

It sounds like the problems started after using the ASUS O/C utility...which is not recommended around here...better to manually overclock than to use software.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. Updated the bios to 806, issue persists.
Removed all but 1 stick of ram and the system booted and ran fine.
Tested all 4 sticks individually, an they were all good.
reinstalled all 4 sticks of ram, made sure everything was seated properly.
System has been running fine for a while now.
Think we can close this one.
 
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