GTX 275 Lightning Issues - Need Bios

I have a GTX 275 1792mb Lightning model, the one with the cool dual aftermarket fans. I've been getting blue screens ever since I installed it, and the games run very choppy when applying AA it seems. I've used several sets of msi drivers and several nvidia drivers(including the latest one). It can't be my psu because I was running a gtx295 in this system without issue, so it can't be any components of my system since a gtx295 is basically two 275s.
I notice that when I first got the card the red/blue/green light would always remain on. When I use the lightning afterburner utility the green led light on the card would stay on.
And now when I try to launch afterburner it will have these pop windows that say either:
Error: schmanager==NULL
and
VBIOS: Flash_MMIO_MAP DeviceIoControl error
I'm thinking maybe the vga bios is some how corrupt. I've looked around the net and can't find it. Like I said I've tried all drivers, and even flashed my motherboard bios to the latest version...and flashed it to some older versions just to see if it would make a difference.
I'd like to rule out the vga bios if possible as a last resort, so if someone has the gtx275 lightning bios please let me get it from you so I can try to resolve this issue. I really don't want to have to return this product back to newegg. I really love the design with the dual fans and heat sink. I tried contacting msi customer tech support but they won't give me the bios, and they say they don't have it which I find a bit odd. I have flashed the vga bios before so I'm not some noob that doesn't know what they are doing.
I could also make a copy of my gtx275 lightning bios and send it to someone to see if maybe they can figure out if something is wrong with it.

I'm running a corsair 750 watt PSU
Q660
Gigabyte g31 motherboard
1TB WD Hard drive
OCZ 1066mhz of ram
And I recently swapped the lighting with a gtx 260 and see what would happen in the same system. The GTX260 ran games smoothly, and would run furmark fine with the newest nvidia drivers. Swap back the gtx 275 lightning, and games are really slow and choppy especially when you add any kind of AA. The FPS is literally cut in half when I switched to the msi gtx 275. I think it's safe to say that the GTX275 is defective.

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Hi Svet,
I Though that too, but the card runs fine in another hardware but same PSU (tested stability of the psu also, checked the 80+ Gold status too in live test) and another not so fancy psu. One 275GTX runs flawless too. So I'm thinking in that my mb doesn´t like the 580 lighting (and loves the 275). I'll see a possible upgrade to one 990FX (MSI) next month, hoping the issues vanish
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