Windows Vista 64 crashing + BSOD

[Bunjiweb]

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

[dangel]

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.

[shaithis]

Sounds like hardware.

Maybe post some of the errors?

[Aaron]

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.