Weird 6800GT PCIe issues

Hi,
I just got some new parts for my system which include the Gigabyte SLI motherboard and MSI 6800GT PCIe card. Installing Windows was a pain, I think there may be something wrong with my memory as I would get BSODs during the install until I switched it to single channel mode.
Once I got it installed, I installed the nForce 4 drivers, followed by the newest nvidia whql forcewares. My system is still a little unstable but for the most part, it's ok in Windows. That is, until I try to do any sort of configuring or running of 3D apps. For example, when I try and select the 6800GT tab in advanced display properties, it just hangs. When I tell Windows to kill the process, it still stays there forever. Exact same thing when I try and load 3d mark 05 or SiSoft Sandra. I tried loading two games and they both crashed before they even got to the menu.
I'm going to try re-installing Windows, but I don't know if that's going to help. I'm really worried my video card is screwed. It's gonna be hard to narrow down this problem because none of my old components are compatible with the new system.
Does anyone have any ideas of what it could be or what I should try?
Thanks,
Adrian

No, only ran memtest on the old machine (with the same RAM). I could run it on the new machine.
Even if there is a problem with the RAM, I'm thinking something else it at fault. Either Windows is corrupted somehow or the video card has a fault. At this point, I'm doubting that it's anything else.
CPU temps are at about 28 at idle. This problem doesn't happen when I'm running a 3D app, I get app hangs and crashes on initialization, which to me sounds like the video card is issued a drawing operation and it fails. It's not a driver issue either, I tried 3 different forceware drivers all with the exact same results.

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