NX7600GT-TD512 with GA-K8NS-Ultra-939

Hi all,
I have bought a MSI NX7600GT-TD512 and use a Gigabyte GA-K8NS-Ultra-939 Mainboard with 2 GB RAM from Corsair and an AMD +3500 64 CPU. My nightmare started with the new graphic card. Before I had a 6800 Nvidia one. The computer was freezing after the change. No problems because I wanted to try out Windows Vista.
So I bought a new harddisk (they are cheap enough) and installed Vista. No problems other that my computer isn't powerfull enough to run some 3D intensive games under Vista with the same performance (and no Audigy 2 drivers which are running well).
So I backuped the important stuff of my old harddisk, reformated and reinstalled Windows XP SP2 with all MS security patches and Nvidia 5.11 chipset drivers + latest official Nvidia forceware drivers. But the computer was freezing while browsing or during simple tasks in Windows XP. Same happens in Games too. Sometimes it's very fast, sometimes it needs it time. Strange enough Vista is running without these problems.
I reinstalled Windows XP (formated the partition) and installed the 5.10 chipset drivers and the recommended MSI forceware drivers. No real change. I talked to Gigabyte but all is ok. Firmware (F10), no known incompatibilty.
I checked the internet for another bios/used Live Update but no Bios/Firmware update for this card.
I'm lost  Only difference between Vista and XP is the way how the drivers communicate with Windows and the graphic card.
Help

I just got the NX7600GT-TD512Z (heat pipe cooling) today and I have the exact same motherboard. I am getting frustrated since I have the exact same problem as you describe. I noticed that it freezes when I try to start a 3D game or when I visit websites with flash. I have tried installing the drivers that came with the card and also the newest ones from nividia website, but no go. I have also done 2 fresh installs of Windows XP but nothing fixes it. I tried disbeling AGP fast write in the motherboard BIOS, also no difference.
I have nearly brand new PSU (Antec NeoHE 430W) and everything worked fine yesterday with my old Gigabyte 6600GT.
Does anyone with the same problem have a fix for this? If not, have anyone had any success getting a return from MSI?
Fred

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