Bad video card or driver/hardware incompatibility?

I have not had a problem with stability on my main computer until I purchased an MSI GeForce4 Ti4600.  I have in the past operated this computer for over a week without reboot or shut down with little problem.
With this new card, I can no longer play any game that contains 3D graphics.  When using Windows XP for the exclusive purpose of 2D graphics, it is fairly stable.  Once I try doing anything 3D intensive, I will almost immediately lock up, get a "blue screen of death" with a variety of messages including "hardware failure", or get a distorted image followed by one of the two previous listed actions.  I have been trying different software configurations over the past week with no success.  I have tried using Windows 2000, every combination of drivers I can find/think of, and 3 different version of motherboard bios.
The stats on the computer I have been mentioning are as follows:
Tyan S2460 motherboard
2 x AMD Athlon MD 1600+
2 x 256MB PC2100 DDR Ram
IBM 60GB 7500RPM harddrive
400Watt power supply
I initially thought that it was a hardware conflict so I decided, yesterday, to try the video card on my old machine.  I had the exact same problems.
Stats on the second machine:
600MHz Athlon
Gigabyte 7IX motherboard
125MB Ram
250 Watt power supply
I would like to get some input before I decide what my next step is.

I plan on trying it; however, I am not looking forward to exchanging power supplies.   :P   Have already put a weeks worth of work into it.
I don't think it is over heating.  I am a cooling freak.  For example, I water cool my main system (the cooling is externally powered thus lowering the strain on my p/s), excluding the video card, even though nothing is overclocked.  ATM, my video card has a large fan positioned right next to it for the sole purpose of helping the factory fan/heatsink do their job.  After the lock-ups, i have physically checked the card's temperature, and it seemed to be staying quite cool.

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