Yeah, make sure that you have enough power, and good drivers. I had an XFX 6600GT card that didn't work with the nvidia reference drivers, so I had to run drivers from XFX, you might try a driver from the video card manufacturer instead of nvidia.
But it really sounds like a defective card to me. Try the above, and if that doesn't work, then RMA it.
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