Ultra 40 fx3500 nvidia driver problem with XP

Hello,
I have a Sun Ultra 40 Workstation with an fx3500 graphic-card. With Solaris, Mandriva and 64Bit-Windows
the card works without problems. But with XP 32-Bit only the old 9x drivers from Nvidia work. If I try to
install a driver-release above 100 (today I tried 191.00, but I also have tried many other releases) the driver
installs fine. But after rebooting the workstation powercycles short before the Windows-Login-Screen
appears and Windows boots in "Safe-Mode". Then I can install the old 9x drivers and XP works again.
I tried a tool which wipes out the old Nvidia-driver first, bevor installing the new one, but no success.
Why is it not possible to install new Nvidia-drivers?
After the second boot when the driver has failed to load, the following messages appears on the screen
after the Bios has finished:
"Nvidia Rom Bios" "Detecting Arrays"
I could not read the whole text, because the message appears only a very short time, so I could not
read the message exactly. But the message only appears after the problem with the graphics card driver.
I have not configured disk-arrays. I'm not shure, but is it possible that there is something wrong with
the Nvidia-fx3500, the Nvidia-mainboard-Chipset and the Nvidia-graphics-driver above the 100. release.
Can you please help me?
Best Regards
Ralf

First of all, thank you guys for your replies, and sorry if I answer you late; but I was tring to apply some of your suggestions.
pharao:
My old card was "the stupid" (Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT with Kyro 4000XT chipset)
Hotoro:
What do you mean by reload Windows XP? Un/Re-Install it?! It is not a good solution for me, at least, right now. I have huge data, my settings and a lot of application installed that needs days to restore or reconfigure, and I do not think that I have that much time.
daveg4otu (Dave):
Thank you for your help. I already removed old card drivers and registry entries, and now I also removed the new ones using "Driver Cleaner" as you suggest, but the same was the result
Raven236:
No, my old card was not ATI. OK, I will try this new driver (56.72), but I can not keep downloading all drivers without result, can I?
coollg:
I do not think so, because the card is working fine on the same PC on Windows 98SE. So, it is not Mainboard, AGP or compatibility problem, as I think. In other hand, you are right, I am not expecting to get the maximum performance from that card, I am, now, looking for the minimum.
Did I have to do someting else?!!!
Thanks again.

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