Bad Graphics Card? Replacement?

Over the last 2 days my computer has been very, very sad Bad graphics glitches. Freezes. Bad startups, etc.
All my RAM seems to be okay, and my startup disk does, too.
So I was wondering if my graphics card had gone belly up?
I have a GForce 8800.
My buddy at work had a fairly new ATI Radeon HD 2600 HD, and he gave it to me today to test.
I came home, and swapped them out. But I get BLACK on my monitor. Nothing. Nada.
The Nvidia still works (although it gives me the glitches and the now-frequent panics).
Do I need a DRIVER for this ATI?
If I can't boot up 100% how can i hope to install it?

Thanks for the response!
I've actually been able to share my sreen via my MacBook.
It's pretty obvious that it WAS my old GPU. Ugh.
What's WEIRD is that I haven't seen my MacPro this FAST in a while! Its' pretty obvious that this card was on it's last legs for a while!
This "zippiness" makes me think that I could get a few more years out of this puppy yet!
Any other suggestions for cards?
I'm having a real time finding viable options that I KNOW will work with this 3,1 model. Not a lot of "enter your model, and we'll list the options for you" kind of sites. At least that I know of.
For instance, would this one from Amazon work?
http://www.amazon.com/XFX-GeForce-8800GT-PCI-E-PVT88PYDD4/dp/B000YB0BRM/ref=aag_ m_pw_dp?ie=UTF8&m=ASA308HFU5YZ6
Again, thanks a TON for your help.
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