MSI HD6950 Frozr III 2gb screen lock up

Hi I'm asking for help before I have to return my MSI HD6950 Frozr III 2 GB graphics card.
I Have a self built system that comprises of the following:  ASUS M4A88 T-M motherboard
                                                                                     AMD Phenom 955 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (not overclocked)
                                                                                     8 Gigs of Corsair 1600 RAM - Windows 7 64 Bit all windows updates
                                                                                     750 watt Antec PSU
                                                                                     1 TB Samsung F1 Hard Drive
                                      (Had 1 GB Nvidia GTS450 - the system has run beautifully since I built it in August, no crashes, lock ups etc)
Bought the beautiful HD6950 and installed it ok, installed the latest Catalyst 11.10 drivers, it ran ok for a short period of time, but then in games it started to lock up, this resulted in a beige coloured screen with very thin vertival dark lines, could not CNTL/ALT/DEL out of it, had to reset. Windows then will not run up normally, so I have to try safe mode. Safe mode comes up, but attempting to system restore ends in failure and after applying all the saved data it sits there with a blank screen. This then results in reset and safe mode yet again.
I have been on AMD's website but this just results in dozens of possibilities dating back 3 or 4 years. One of the moderators suggested your site as it is MSI equipment and thought it more useful in attempting to find a fix for this issue.
I have while in safe mode deinstalled the graphics card and relaunched the system, Windows will then come back up again using windows generic drivers, I then re-install the latest Drivers from AMD's site, and when prompted to I restart the system, this then sends me back into the cycle of failing to load up Windows yet again. And has gone on like this for several days now, I have done loads of suggested things to attempt a fix, all to no avail, Virus checked, even bought a new PSU in case my old 550 watt unit was lacking power, I have reseated all RAM and checked my RAM in windows, reconnected all power cables, reseated my graphics card, all to no avail.
            I was now starting to doubt my system, so in desperation, I deinstalled the HD6950 and put back in my GTS450, what a difference, the system is stable and a joy, its how I was expecting the system to behave with the HD6950 in, obviously I would ideally like the extra graphics clout of the HD6950 in but I'll settle for stable and rock solid instead. One clue I may have is I noticed that it tended to lock up when the GPU's fan increased in speed, from its low and quiet mode of operation. Please help as I want to give you 6950 the best possible chance, but I cant go on with it like this.....
                                                           Yours Sincerely

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