Windows Vista 64 crashing + BSOD

Well, I bought a new processor and motherboard, AMD 64 3200 and Abit NF-5. had to re-cover windows to try and get it to work, but then realised I didnt have the CD key for my WinXP Professional disc.

Vista 64 installed with fairly little trouble but it cant even run for 1 minute without Explorer or some protocal or service having to restart. It wont even let me do any windows updates or anything because it keeps crashing. Then, just when I think everything is going right it Blue screens. It has come up with a range of errors and automatically restarts.

Do you think it could be the motherboard at fault or is there something I am missing I thought 64 bit computing would be fairly painless but I was SO wrong.

Ben

First question, have you used memtest to confirm your memory is stable? http://www.memtest.org/

Are the errors you're getting all different types (you seem to be saying this) - i mean the BSOD messages themselves?

Most BSODs (well all i've seen so far) are related to either bad drivers or bad hardware - so they're the obvious things to look at.

Sounds like hardware.

Maybe post some of the errors?

What motherboard drivers are you using?

My Abit motherboard didn't like Vista at all with the default Abit drivers. Try the stock nVidia/VIA ones.