Problems with Vista 32

Hey guys,
I've been with xp for years and just yesterday switched to vista.  This is my set up.
Asus P5E
q6600(not oc'd)
Kingston HyperX 2 gigs 1066
Evga 8600 GTS 512
Coolmaster Real Power Pro 650 watt psu
WD 500 gig 7200 sata

After loading all the drivers, I got the blue screen mini dump.  All these components are new, and I cannot for the life of me find a diagnostic tool in vista.  When it rebooted it said that the problem could be my motherboard, ram, gpu, ot psu....I was shocked and not sure where to go from here.  Any help would me much appreciated.

Did you do a clean install of Vista, or an upgrade?

Also, If these are all brand new, never used parts, try 1 stick of ram first. Also, as you may know, make sure your settings are correct in the BIOS.

My experience has been that blue screens such as this are most often caused by buggy drivers, but figuring out which one requires analyzing the dump.  If you can catch the blue screen, it may also indicate which driver is involved.

If I had to guess, it would most likely be the Video card driver.  I'd check for the most recent drivers available, and load those and see if the blue screen issue goes away.

Also - I believe that Vista does have a memory diagnostic tool.  Memtest is the name, if it serves me right.  If you suspect physical hardware issues, that might be one route to take.

Clean install. I did have to change the memory in the bios to 1066, like the Asus man told me to.  I am going to run some benchmarking to see if I can get it to crash again.  Thanks for the help

Which BSoD?

An Error and Driver Name would be very useful. You can give us a great deal of information by looking up the event log of the BSoD and using CTRL-A to select the grey area, and CTRL-C to copy it.

PS - The memory tool is called MdSched.exe and can be run by executing that at the run command (it is in the system path).

Load the crash dump into windbg and do an "!analyze -v", just google for some detailed directions on how to analyze BSOD crash dumps.

How would I get that info?