first boot help...

Hi, ive just built my first rig but im having some problems. It powers up when i turn it on, but it restarts before reaching windows, just before it resarts it falshes a blue screen, but duseto the speed i cant tell what it says.. Any ideas i can try? Im guessing i need to do something with BIOS but reading the manual is like reading 12 century french poetry…upside down. Anyway i would really appreciate any help…

The computer components:
Dell nVidia 7800gtx
AMD athalon 3800+
Corsair 1gb ram
Maxtor IDE 40gb hard drive
Asus A8N sli dexule mobo
Floppy drive
DVD drvie
Hiper 580W power supply

All these parts are new except the optical drives, hard drive and Case

thanks

Make sure that its a clean build, and that you’ve securely installed all coolers/CPU heatsinks.