Both the screen flickering after dual monitor setup in Premiere Pro CS6

Hello,
I recently installed Premiere Pro CS6 in my PC. Then after I set up dual monitor in the Preference, the screens of both the monitor started to flicker until I stop the playback. Previously I used same hardware with CS5 but there were no problem.
Link to dxdiag text file :
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53681371/DxDiag.txt
I have attached the screenshots of msinfo32 and my graphics drive info.

Some ideas for a Desktop Video Editing PC
http://www.adkvideoediting.com/
-ADK Kudos http://forums.adobe.com/thread/877201
Build http://forums.adobe.com/thread/878520?tstart=0
-more build ideas http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html
-Build it Yourself http://forums.adobe.com/thread/815798
-http://www.shawnlam.ca/2012/premiere-pro-cs6-video-editing-computer-build/
Laptop Video Editing PC http://forums.adobe.com/message/4578948

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"Zaphod mode" on wikipedia is listed as a multi-seat configuration, however, I think it more often describes the set up in my posted xorg.conf. That is, the server has two independent screens associated with their respective device. Titling window managers seem to present multiple screens a la Zaphod. At least in awesome, each screen has its own set of tags. Xinerama is a soon to be deprecated extension merging multiple physical displays into a singular virtual one. It will be replaced with RandR. But, as of the current version of RandR, multi-board setups are not supported.
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Having the Zaphod mode xorg config, enabling Xinerama just requires one line in the ServerLayout section:
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However, if the resolution differs on the screens, screens with lower resolutions will have "dead space" where the rectangle of the virtual resolution is not displayed by the physical resolution of a screen. Moving the cursor into this area will pan the screen to show the previously hidden area and hiding what was previously visible. This means an application fullscreened on the screen with the lower resolution will never be completely visible.
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3) Configure your window manager, or use a different window manager, so that it is aware of the two screens and treats them reasonably (e.g. moves windows when the desktop area is changed).
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