Blue Screen on a k9a2 Platinum

My computer is blue screening on a fresh install of Windows Vista.  Vista installs perfect and starts perfect.  But after I install a usb device such as a wireless adapter, a PCI to PCI Bridge driver gets installed.  It then wants me to restart my computer.  After I restart, it blue screens.  Any help will be greatly affected.

Don't think the Vista install was perfect. That is, if you don't like blue-screens more than I do.
This said in general:
Have only what is needed for the install. Add things later. That helps the installation. It also helps the possible troubleshooting afterwards. - Yes, I know it is tempting when building a new system to move all old and new stuff in at once, but be strong. 

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    did all those settings. and have the newest and the disk version of the drivers.
    do u guys really think that it not being able to find the driver file a power issue? either way i ll do anything at this point i rewired some stuff where the video card has its own rail and the hard drives have theirs with the cd-rom drive. took out my fan controler and really power hungry after market video card fan replaced with an old 60mm fan.
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    Stop swearing here! It's NOT allowed.
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    Can't say, maybe CPU-z programmers are not that far yet on reading that info.
    It involves a whole lot of AMD techdoc reading and testing to read values out of the CPU, and they changed the memory controller / working another time, so I can imagine it will take a few more version for them to have that working.
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    Quote
    # AMD Phenom and Opteron Barcelona support improved.
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  • K9A2 Platinum - Nothing but Trouble!!!

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    Quote from: Bas on 06-September-08, 00:37:27
    Put XP 32bit on it.
    Vista (and special Vista 64bit) is the most unstable and crappy OS M$ has ever produced.
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  • K9A2 Platinum Dead or Not? most definetly not!!!!!!

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    Recently i updated my graphics card driver (  Sapphire Radeon HD3650 512Mb DDR2) from version 8.11 to 8.12 after which Blu-ray play back became jumpy and began to cause blue screen crashes, I also replaced my Cmos battery with a new one as i think the old one was dead as my system did not keep the correct time(each time i shut down or restarted the time would change also some changes i made in bios were not saved e.g boot sequence). I havent updated my system bios . Now my system will not start and my graphics cards just make a pulsing whirring sound (all other fans including my cpu fan work) Nothing appears on the screen, I have tried a new pny nvidia 9800GT card with the same result (pulsating whirring sound) which gives me the impression that it is the motherboard is at fault, I have tried the cards in all four pci-e 2.0 X16 slots same result. I have also tried to clear the cmos using the jumper pins on the motherboard to no avail. Now i cant get into my system (not even the bios) to remove the new graphics drivers or try to flash my bios. I have tried using the MSIHQ tool to prepare my usb flash drive to flash my bios but it will not work on my compaq laptop, i would try to create a bootable CD/dvd/flash drive but i havent the first clue how to do it any help in this regard would be appreciated or is my motherboard dead. i hope its not dead as i cant afford to buy a new one. :(
    My system,
    MSI K9a2 Platinum v1.0 790FX SB600
    3 gb pny pc2 5400 memory
    AMD Phenom 9850 be
    sapphire radeon hd 3650 512 mb ddr2(PNY Geforce 9800 GT 512 Mb DDR3) conected to a 32" phllips lcd via DVI/hdmi conector
    wd 160 gb hdd
    corsair 650 watt psu
    LG GGw-H20L blu-ray burner drive
    Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
    Followed some suggestions from Bas In other posts removed all but one stick of memory and hey presto its ALive
    BAS is God

    Remove power cord from the PSU and repeat >>Clear CMOS Guide<<
    Once done try to boot.
    If no change:
    "3 gb pny pc2 5400 memory"
    Leave just one memory stick in a 1st DIMM close to CPU socket and try to boot.
    If no change, get decent memory stick PC6400 or PC8500 and re-test.

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