Need Help with new video card.

I recently purchased an NVIDIA G Force FX 5500 OC video card for my computer(A compaq presario), the installation went smooth and I have the latest drivers possible for the card but ever since I installed it when I go to run any video application like Windows Media Player, Real Player, and Quicktime player the file plays for a few moments and then I get a blue screen error that says Hard Ware Malfunction, and then below that it says something about a Memory Parity error?

After doing some basic searching on the net I found a few sites that said there was a bug with the drivers on this card that set the gamma to high by default, I am not sure if it is true or if this is the same problem I am having. I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

 

did you effieciently uninstall the old Graphics Drivers before installing the new card?

go to Add/Remove programs, and uninstall any graphics drivers. reboot into Safe Mode, and run Driver Cleaner, removing whichever drivers you used to have (if it was an old nvidia card, running nvidia removal once will suffice). Then boot back into windows, and install the latest Nvidia Drivers.

 

There is a huge problem with the cards in that range from nvidia.
I ran into the same problem with an FX-5200 series card.
Blue screens CONSTANTLY! So I did some hunting around and found
a lot of people in the same boat. I was never able to correct it using
a different driver. So what I wound up doing that fixed the problem
is using windows media classic. Same goes for real player and quicktime.
These are alternative versions of those programs that use
the core of windows media classic for the videos. It reduced
the blue screens I got down to almost zero.
The programs are called Real Player alternative and also
Quicktime alternative.
Once they are installed on your computer, you can open up the
media player classic, and just drag and drop any video file into it
without the blue screen.