Please help with GE Force 3 in WIndows 2000 / XP!

TeABaG88

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I have a GE Force 3 card with a P4, 256 mb RDRAM and an Intel 850 Series motherboard. I get Blue Screens of Death all the time in windows ( I am not overclocking anything whatsoever) . I get them when playing a game or just even surfing the web. As soon as i load up a game, say Max Payne, it will load and then gives me a BSoD. I also get BSoD's when surfing the web or just doing something normal and I get random application crashes (not BSoD's) in addition to this. The only way that I can get my system stable is to turn down the hardware acceleration slider. This however disbales all Direct X so i cant play games or surf the web. I have done both a clean install of Windows XP Pro, with only my GE Force 3 card installed, and also a clean install of WIndows 2000 pro with just my GE Force 3 installed. I get the same type of errors in both OS's. However when I had Windows 98 installed, it worked fine. I believe that my problem is either bad RDRAM or a problem with my ge force 3 drivers in Win 2000/ XP. I currently have nvidia's 23.11 drivers installed. Has anyone else had this problem or heard of problems with the GE Force 3 in Windows 2000 / XP. I have heard of the 60 hz refresh rates problem and downloaded the fix for this but i still get the BSoD's. I get my different errors on my blue screen but usually they are either PAGE_FALUT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or it lists win32k.sys . I have been troubleshooting this for over 3 weeks and I am currently at a dead end. Thanks for any suggestions...