K8N Neo2 and 6800 Problems

System 3500 939 cpu K8N Neo mainboard 6800 Nvidia Card 1024 Ram XP PRO SP2
I have tried various Drivers 61.77 67.03 65.73 71.20 66.81 66.93 71.24 and many things listed on various forums to stop my computer from crashing 30 seconds into a game. At the momment I have formatted my hard drive and only have Mainboard drivers , video drivers & Directx 9.0c,  Colin Mcrae  & UT2004. Games still crashing. I have installed 3 diferent video cards ASus geforce 2 , MSI 4200 TI and Radeon 9800 pro all 3 cards run perfect  on my system except Asus and 4200 Ti are slow with frame rates. Otherwise no crashes and lock ups. As soon as the 6800 goes back in my system all games crash. Took my card to a friend who has a n force 2 Gigabyte board and my 6800 runs perfect. One thing I noticed on my system was with an older version of DirectX it took longer for my games to crash.
Any help would be appreciated but after all this I think I will never buy Nvidia again, my previous systems I have always had Via mainboard chipsets and have never had a problem. What a big mistake I made this time!

Okay thanks for your replys disabling fast writes did nothing to fix my problem or changing any settings in Riva tuner like alot of people on other forums were saying.
I have now seemed to have fixed the problem and it was such a simple solution I can't believe I hadn't tried it before I'm kicking myself!
My LCD monitor display likes to be set at 1280x1024 okay well guess what I had never tried running a game at that resolution. So in my game resolution settings when I set it to 1280x1024 I have no lock ups or crashes. If I change the resolution either on my desktop or in the game settings it crashes. I can't believe I never tried it before. Thanks everyone I will try different resolutions now.

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