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Solve : new Mobo, ram, cpu... BSOD? why??

Answer» <html><body><p>everything is new... minus my hard drives.<br/><br/>My sata hard drive currently has windows vista...<br/><br/>when everything is good and connected i boot up the system and after the black windows loading screen i <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/get-11812" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GET">GET</a> a flash of a BSOD and then the system restarts...<br/><br/>asus striker extreme mobo<br/>intel quad core q6600<br/>4gig ddr2 ram<br/>2x geforce 8800gt ko's<br/><br/>Now... what is causing the BSOD? do i need to reinstall vista? Problem is... I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/purchasedaeur-1172765" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PURCHASED">PURCHASED</a> the upgrade edition... so it says I need to install FROM my current version of windows (cept it restarts before it gets to windows ). So... do i need to install XP? if so... how? if not... what is causing the BSOD and what can I do to fix it? <br/><br/>Thanks.also.. it won't <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/run-1192138" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RUN">RUN</a> in safe mode either Start up your system. Hit "F8" key just after keyboard <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/lights-770382" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LIGHTS">LIGHTS</a> flash. Hopefully you'll get "Windows Advanced Options" menu (not positive if Vista has this menu). If there is a "Disable automatic restart on system failure" item, select it.<br/><br/>With any luck you'll stop on the Blue Screen of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/death-239681" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DEATH">DEATH</a> (BSOD). Copy the error message text and numbers "exactly" as they appear and post them here and/or search Microsoft Knowledge Base and Internet for causes and resolutions of this error.i tried to do this once but it did not work. ended up removing physical memory and the computer loaded as normal. this only works with virtual memory thoughQuote from: programming_pat on November 21, 2007, 09:05:37 PM</p><blockquote>i tried to do this once but it did not work. ended up removing physical memory and the computer loaded as normal. this only works with virtual memory though<br/></blockquote><br/>You can safely ignore this advice...the machine will not boot with no RAM installed.Poweful setup you've got there. Anyways, any time I've changed significant amounts of hardware like that, Windows has an anxiety attack. Instead of doing an install, do you have options to repair the existing installation?</body></html>


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