Help!!! New mobo...new cpu...dead install

My buddy bought a new motherboard (DFI Lanparty UT Nforce 3 250GB) and a new processor (AMD Athlon 64 3400+). He used to have a P4 on an Intel 845 mobo/chipset. He boot nuked the HD, then reinstalled basic WinXP. WinXP failed to boot. We installed WinXP SP 1, SP 2, and the lateset Nvidia Drivers in Safe Mood only to watch Windows start loading then the blue screen of death. The blue screen flashes too fast to see what it says. Anyone have any idea what we should do?

Anyone? Any chance you might need to have Windows XP 64 bit version for this mobo/cpu?

you don't need xp 64 to run this setup.

have you tried "Last Known Good Configuration"?

what other components do you have in the PC?

So you are basically saying that the system runs long enough and stable enough for you to install windows. It should not be an overheating or HDD issue then.

Once you restart and windoes boot up it crashes.

I do not think this is a driver issue. You might want to hope over and buy a new stick of ram and see if your ram is the cause of the crash.

Had the computer started to crash when you played games then it might be a heating but this does not seem to be the case.

remove all extra's (floppy - extra HD's) and disable things in the bios like built in NIC and serial port etc etc

use a single stick of ram / 1 hard drive / 1 cdrom and that is it

We figured out that it's the ram. He has DDR333 and the processor has a 400FSB. We got it fixed. Thanks to all for your help.