installing vista after hardware upgrade

[RL400]

I upgraded my cpu and motherboard from amd to intel q6600 and this is what happened:

installed windows... on the second time it goes to restart i get the flash of a blue screen with writing (too quick to read) and then it restarts and says windows could not load sussecfully.. gives me a list of start up options. I chose safe mode and it says windows cannot finish installation in safe mode and restarts. i tried the reapair pc opion on the disc and no luck, i then reinstalled the os and same problem... the computer did load up in my old settings and such perform i formated the drive with the windows disc and began to reinstall

 

[bigdogchris]

If you have a pre-sp1 disc, try installing it with only 2GB of ram.

 

[RL400]

it only has 2 gigs of ram.. this is a pre sp1 oem disc

 

[RL400]

seems to be working now after I ran a memory test off the vista disc