Needing some help sorting out a vid card issue

[Baghr]

Hello all, I need some help sorting out some issues involving a new vid card.

My system specs: OS is XP Pro, up to date. Mobo: D865PERL with a single core P4 3.0, 2 gig of RAM, and have ran an ATI all-in-wonder 9600 series 128mb card with 8 pixel piplines in AGP format for the last four years without incident. I am able to run a 3D Mark 3 benchmark with this setup in the 2700's.

The card was replaced with a EVGA GeForce 7300GT with 512mb same 8pixel pipeline and the same AGP format. I am unable to run the sim-it will start but is very sluggish-to the point it takes about 30 seconds for the cursor to reflect the movement I have made. Needless to say the sim is unplayable. When I run the same benchmark test, it will get through the first portion, but then crashes, where I have to reboot. What I see before it crashes is a marked improvement in frame rates.

Today the screen scrambled and sent an error message "THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER" I would imagine this points to a driver issue but not sure.

I have downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia and EVGA, and installed them correctly from what I can tell. I use driver cleaner, a program to remove all old drivers, which I haveused on other applications and it works OK. I installed nTune version 5.5, which is a device to help tune the card on non nvidia mobo chipsets.

I'm a noob to this sim, and have a general knowedge about computers. I replaced my stock 300w PSU with a Corsair 520W modular, so power supply is not an issue. An interesting note is Im able to surf the web and navigate on my computer, it seems to give me probs when I put a load on it, such as the benchmark test or laoding hte sim.

HELP!!!!