4870 BSOD on XP!! Need help!

Solution:

I've found a solution and hopefully anyone out there with this problem will now have a light shed upon.

Thank god for the experience I've had with updating drivers on my laptop...This is actually very similar.

1) Boot up in Safe mode with networking
2) go to ati's website and download the latest catalyst drivers for 4800 series
3) run the installation file (pay attention to the directory where you extract your files) [usually in C:\ATI\SUPPORT\(catalyst driver version here)] see * below for my example of Catalyst 8.10
3) Go to start -> control panel -> system
4) Select "hardware" tab -> Device manager
5) double click on "other devices" and you should see Unknown VGA card (or something of that sort)
6) right click on "unknown VGA card" and select "update driver". When prompted "can windows connect to Windows update to search for new drivers" say "yes, this time only"
7) Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)"
8) Select "include this location" and type in the directory of where your video card was plus "\XP_INF" (see ** below for example) in the end and press next

* example:
C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-10_xp32_dd_69561

** Example:
what I mean by add "\XP_INF" is
C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-10_xp32_dd_69561\XP_INFO

have the same problem, going to try this out.
Except I have a 4870 + gigabyte x48-ds4 board