Windows keep rebooting after hardware upgrade

In the quest of trying to quiet down my old PC, I accidentally burnt my CPU
when putting on a heatsink incorrectly. Since it's fairly old, I decided to
move on and get a new CPU, which requires a new motherboard and RAM. So
basically I got a bunch of new hardware upgrade at the same time.

The first time after the upgrade, I got to the XP Pro login screen and it
said that I need to activate the copy of the Windows to use it. I recall the
activation checks for hardware component so I decided to not activate it at
that time as I was still planning to add other hardware upgrade. I shut the
system down and went on to get the other hardware components. While doing
this, I got a great deal on CPU/MB combo so I exchanged what I purchased last
week with this new CPU/MB combo.

After I putting in the new CPU/MB combo last night, Windows would just boot
into a text screen telling me that the last boot was unsuccessful and asked
me to choose between safe mode, safe mode with network, last known good
configuration, etc. However, whatever I choose, it booted into a blue screen
and rebooted itself. The blue screen lasted a fraction of a second and I
couldn't read anything off of it. The system just cycle through this: asking
me to choose what mode to boot, got into a blue screen that I couldn't read,
and reboot.

1. How do I troubleshoot this?
2. Is there anyway to make the blue screen stay so I can do better
troubleshooting? The pause key doesn't work as it passes so fast and I could
never caught it at the right time.
3. Is it because of the hardware or CPU upgrade? I went through an old
Athlon 1 Ghz to an Athlon 64 2800+. Could the new 64 bit CPU be part of this?
4. I have the original installation CD of my Win XP Pro? Can I use that to
repair my system?
5. If re-install over the existing copy, will my application still work?
6. Do I need to re-activate my Win XP and Office XP? Will this hadware
upgrade cause my system to be considered a new one and therefore, activation
would fail?

Thanks for any help.

Leo
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