Nvidia card giving me same trouble as Ati card

Okay, originally I was using a Radeon 9500 Pro video card.  The problem was that anything OGL accelerated completely froze my system; I couldn't run glxgears without it freezing.  I tried and tried and tried to find a solution to the problem, using the open source drivers v. proprietary ones, minimal xorg.conf files, whatever.  Nothing worked.  Same symptoms on Ubuntu and Arch.  Since I was dual booting with Windows, I tried the card on Windows; it worked fine with any 3d application (I even tried Planet Penguin Racer so I could use the same game on each OS.  Windows could handle it, Linux froze as soon as the game booted up everytime.)
So I ordered an Nvidia 6200 to hopefully remedy the problem because I assumed it was a video driver problem.  I installed the card, pacman'd the nvidia drivers, generated a xorg.conf and rebooted.  I made it to the desktop and typed glxinfo into the console.  I had direct rendering and everything seemed to be okay.  I ran glxgears.  1600fps, 1600fps, 1600fps... boom, my computer went back to KDM.  Uh oh.  I logged back in and ran glxgears again, except this time it hard froze JUST LIKE my Ati card.  Big uh oh.  I powered down and powered back on (because alt-ctrl-backspace couldn't kill X) and logged in again.  I tried to watch a video file, and it rebooted my machine.  At least my Ati card let me do that safely.  I tried again just to double check myself, and sure enough my computer FROZE again, it didn't just reboot.  Now here I am, out of options.
Obviously there is something wrong with my machine somewhere, whether it be buried deep within Linux or my motherboard or god knows where else.  What I want to know is how I can diagnose this problem?  I'm not going back to Windows, there are too many reasons for me to stay in Linux (most are for development reasons as I'm a CS major, but the media applications are way better in Linux too.)
In summary, is there anything I can do to remedy or diagnose my problem?  This is very frustrating... I can't afford a new computer to 'start over' and buy hardware that I KNOW is compatible. 
Edit/Update:  I reinstalled my Ati card because I'm going to RMA the Nvidia one.  I've got a working xorg.conf file (at least, it can connect to the Xserver).  However, it always freezes when I load KDE, before it even makes it past that loading bar and to the desktop.  I don't know what causes it, but I do know that I can run TWM without it crashing AND I have direct rendering.  Any ideas how I can remedy this?
Here is the xorg.conf, btw.  Just in case.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon 9500 Pro"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Last edited by The Orange Peanut (2008-04-08 21:51:43)

I had this on my desktop - I had switched from ATI to NVIDIA and as a result, all my 3d/videos kept freezing or crashing - turns out it was a conflict with the libGL libraries. I had some wrongly-linked files left over.
You could try removing mesa (which shouldn't be on your system), and reinstalling the nvidia driver, and checking the system for any stray libGL.so.* libraries.

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