KT6V & Win XP Instabilty

Hello,
I have just built my first AMD machine (spec below) and I have been having various stabilty issues along the way and would apprecaiate some advice.
The initial issues seemed to be video card driver and memory related. Loading 'only' the driver from the ATI CD (no other components) and then upating driver using the Win XP driver update facility semed to fixed the video issue he bad memory (failed memtest) was replaced the memory with Crucial and now seems OK (passes memtest).
However I am still getting some sytem freezes and the odd BSOD (cannot see details as system reboots (although I have this disabled in XP 'start up & recovery options). I do not have any additional software loaded as yet, just done a clean install of Win XP SP2 and want to get it stable before I do.
From what I have read it seems the PSU is seriously underpowered, although I have stripped a DVD burner and sound card from the syetm to see if that helps (still monitoring this one).
I did try installing the VIA 4-1 drivers from the MSI MB CD and the situation became very unstable (black screens every few minutes), reverted to previous configuration and now all OK (did not install in safe mode!)
What test could I do to check out the PSU situation to see if it this that is causing the issue (before I buy a new one), what other things should I do to track down the issue?
My System:
MSI KT6V-LSR
Athlon XP 3000+ - AMD Heatsink & Fan (out of the box)
2x 512 Mb DDR PC 3200 (Crucial)
Sapphire 9600SE 128 Mb
On board sound
HDD Maxtor 120Gb SATA
Sony CD-RW CRX320E
PSU Wintech 350W 3.3v/15A. 5v/25A. +12v/13A !!    
Floppy Drive
PS2Mouse
Win XP SP2

Thank you for your patience! And for your willingness to keep up with us! Yes, it has been a learning travel!
We have so three main possible culprits, g card, mboard and CPU. (G card was seated all the way, right, so the 'hook' took grip of the card.) It really could be either, so if things got sort of more stable with other RAM stick, that is a good way to... Maybe not 'start' but 'continue'.
However being able to run 100 MHz somewhat stable is a sign that it should be OK. And the mboard have responded to your measures, though the outcome have not been what you hoped for. In that line of thinking, that leaves g card and CPU. And frankly FSB problems can't have much to do with AGP. So reseating the CPU would be next step.
Do you have a store or a well equipped good friend around, where you might try out part by part? I reckon it might feel a waste to return all the hardware for not knowing which one is faulty.
As Sharp's feeling of loosing confidence have sailed over the oceans, I might suggest you contact ebuyer as well.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/help/index.html?rb=2458589915&action=Y29udGFjdF91cw==
Oh, and you posted a question earlier. 43C is where you land with everything working. System temps would normally be around 10 C less. What is the name of your case? (The optimal, but not always needed condition is an in-fan front low, and the out-fan rear high. If you want to overclock or constantly play heavy 3D games and applications, I suggest you add a side door fan. Then you might not need the rear fan - the PSU fan is sufficient - but must really have an active CPU fan.)

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