I just did a clean install of vista today, and of course had trouble from the get go. I'll try to keep this as short and direct as possible and save specifics once they are asked about.

Here's where I sit. I have vista installed. I started getting bsods as soon as I entered into vista (meaning right after I did the couple start up questions ie my name, pc name, and what settings to use etc) I have all the .dmp files but yet I can't upload them due to the system telling me I don't have permission to (when im the admin). Each time I try to install updates, at some point during the updates I get a bsod. Each time I could actually download and allegedly install some updates, once I entered back into vista, I stops on the configuring screen (the 3 step screen). Stops as in, it would be sitting on step 1 at 0% then all of a sudden goto the next screen where I pick the user, and another way of stopping is in a system freeze.

Since I can't upload the .dmp files all I can give you is that two of the bsod errors ended with

...001E and ...003B

(I'm actually at that step now, the system won't go past the update config screen) Before, when I could get into windows, I couldn't install a couple of my programs, even with downloading the latest drivers or files/edition from the net.

I'll list more specifics if asked, but the question I have right now is.....should I just wipe it and start again? Perhaps something went wrong with the initial install?

Thanks