Screen flashing/black screen for 1-2 seconds - 7850 power edition 2gb/OC

I recently bought the MSI R7850 Power Edition 2GD5/OC. I have installed amd catalyst 12.10. I have no issues while playing games...the only game i have played since i bought the card is prototype 2 (all settings set to high). The problem is while browsing or when not playing my screen flashes (just once - screen becomes black) for about 1-2 seconds. This does not happen regularly, but quite a few times.. i have uninstalled and re-installed the same catalyst version twice (downloaded from different sources - one from msi and the other from amd). The problem still persists.
Board: ASUS P8-H67-M PRO
VGA: MSI R7850 Power Edition 2GB DDR5/OC
PSU: Cooler Master GX550 550W (44a 12v rail)
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W
MEM: Corsair 1333 8gb (2x4gb)
HDD: Seagate 500 GB 7200 rpm
Thanks.
OS: Windows 7 64bit ultimate.

I've experienced the same issue exactly as described, with the R7850 Twin Frozr OC Edition. However, I've also experienced a crash or 2 in which the screen goes black and the monitor goes to sleep. The computer doesn't wake up and I'm forced to do a hard reset. One such event was severe enough that I was unable to restore Windows 8 and had to do a full reinstall...!)
Everything is clocked at factory default, passes Memtest 86+, Prime95 overnight run, even FurMark successfully...
Board: ASUS P8Z77-M
Bios: American Megatrends Inc., v1708
VGA: MSI R7850 Twin Frozr III 2GD5/OC
PSU: Seasonic X-750 (+12V@62A)
CPU: Intel Core i5-3750K
MEM: Samsung DDR3 PC1600 8GB (2x4GB)
HDD: WD 500 GB 7200rpm
COOLER: GPU: Stock. CPU: Xigmatek SD1283 Gaia w/Scythe 120mm Slipstream PWM
Sound card: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
OC: No overclocking, factory default.
OS: Windows 8 Pro, 64-bit
When I tried to save the GPU-Z BIOS settings to a file, my computer crashed my computer (!)... Hopefully this is sufficient to indicate if I should follow the same steps or if this is a different issue / hardware issue / ???
TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.6.7
Driver Version: atiumdag 9.2.0.0 (Catalyst 12.10) / Win8 64
BIOS Version: 015.017.000.000.000861 (113-C4030400-100)
edit:
S/N: 602-V273-010B1210251006
Also updated format of table above
(Perhaps worth noting that the box didn't include any driver CD for some reason)
Thanks for the help.
-DH

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