first bsod

Happened just right now, where to start, please first bear with me my English is not good. So my pc ( details on my profile) has been working fine for months, today i opened foobar + adobe bridge cs5 and BAM bsod. System reseated so no time to check ( fixed that) Now, tried to reboot and my 4770 gave me a black screen on boot problem, cdent even enter bios ( did it a few times in the past randomly, ex updating the display driver ext) changed the videocard, reseated bios values and finally managed to boot. now i have lots of services disabled, ( my pc is offline) and im using an older bios ( tried all) -because the mother as a warm boot / cold boot problem , with the newer bios if you overclock basically it turns on and of at start trashing my hdd, with the old bios im using it boots just fine ( as long as the power cord is pluged) and the if i want to reset -then- it displays the warm boot problem. (dont reset much so dont care) "Some processor performance power management features have been disabled due to a known firmware problem" makes reference to this issue ( newer bios have the updated microcode)
ok thanks

tested my ram, no problems. temporally reverted my mild 3.0ghz oc to stock frequencies (2.4) and upped the vcore a bit (i was undervolting @overclocking my 6600 @ 3.0ghz @ 1.225v -orthos ok- stock is 1.325 @2.4ghz but now im using 8gb instead of 4) no bsod yet, temps are below zero, ( great cooling) any ideas what went wrong?

Could have been overclocking, wrong timings for ram, a hard disk defect, even bad bios sometimes - you know your hardware much better. Set all the clocks standard for a good while to test your rig for stability. If you get new crashes, attach the .dmp files that you can find in C:\Windows\Minidump. Your attached rar doesn't contain any .dmp extensions.

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ken J

I wonder if the problem is caused by a dead CMOS battery on your motherboard.

System boot time is shown as 1/1/2002. Probably the default for your motherboard.

Try replacing it and see what happens.

Thanks guys, lancaster i had to reset cmos values in order to boot- already fixed the old date before it was ok so i dont think thats the issue. regarding dump files no minidump, had a huge kernel one 256MB! tried to rar it but it was still huge so i deleted it... do you want me to post that?

how do i find the first dump file? im asking because i got a new BSOD but this time it was my fault so i dont care the new minidump (changed to mini so i dont have a huge kernel file) is going to reflect that. was tryng to restore my oc from the os ( setfsb, that way i could update to the latest bios, boot on default values - avoiding the coold boot @ warm boot issues . and then oc "on demand" from w7 = managed to go to 2.8ghz and then BSOD. so im stuck with the old bios. im going to go back to 3.0ghz, ( from bios) + a bit more vcore test my cpu and see what happens, if i BSOD ill post the new mini dump file.

i meant the huge kernel dump, cant find that... btw running Orthos small FFTs for 1 hr, no errors yet.