Blue Screen of Death on a Mac, never thought I'd see it.

This my first Mac product ever. I was hoping to have both Mac and Windows on one machine for convenience, and attempt to use Boot Camp. Everything went smoothly: the partition and installation of Windows (Vista Ultimate 32bit). Then I installed the drivers using the OS X installation disc.
Then, I saw it: the blue screen of death. I have found no solution so far. I really hope someone out there has an answer, because this is really frustrating.

UPDATE > -every minute or so ( I haven't timed it ) the screen displays some white writing on a black bacground
two different variants of this have appeared in the first the time/date computer name and :/dev / console operation not supported by device text appeared on the screen in white over a black background.... I entered my admin password , clicked enter ...nothing happened .
Then the black screen returned to blue for a while.
A black screen appeared a second time and said " welcome to Darwin "
then returned to a blue screen
Is there any commands any one might know of that I could input when the text appears that could help find a solution or fix this 'issue '
I would really appreciate it
kindest , becca
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