Failing Graphics card?

Hi!
I bought a used MBP 15 inch Early 2011 2.2 GHz a couple of months ago and it has worked perfect until a couple of days ago.
I had used it normally at the evening before (editing pictures in Photoshop, watched movies, listned to music etc.) and at the morning the day after, when I turned it on, it only showed a lightning bolt symbol and a "hazard"- symbol. It does that since then every time I boot it. The only way is to boot in safe-mode but then I lose a lot of functions I want to use.
I recently upgraded it from 4 GB to 16 GB (1333 MHz), could it be because of that?
I have formatted the hard drive and installed a new Mountain Lion, ran repair disk permissions several times, reset PRAM and SMC but it still does the same thing when I boot.
Is there someone who knows what could have happened? And who might have any solutions? I realise that I probably in the end will have to turn it in to Apple Support and pay a lot of money to get it fixed, but I thought I could ask here first.
I also read somewhere that I could take out the graphics card and put it in the oven for 8 minutes in 200°C and it would get fixed, this sound very bad and unreliable though!
Please, please, please, if you know what this might be or have any solution, reply to this post!
Thank you,
Oskar

Realized that the symbol was the Firewire-symbol and to add a little information, my T-key on my keyboard is stuck (not physically, but probably some short circuit or something). I solved this by buying Apple's external wireless keyboard and putting in a code, each time I use the computer, in the Terminal which disables the internal keyboard. The problem is that this changing resets every time I reboot the computer, which means that the T-key is "pushed" while booting. This give me the Target Disk Mode. Therefore, I can boot in Safe Mode, reinstall the computer etc. without problems since those thing probably "overwrite" the Target Disk Mode.
So my question is now; is there any way to disable the internal keyboard so that it will keep on being disabled even after Reboot?
Thank you,
Oskar

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I have been playing World of Warcraft for over 7 months now (insert geek jokes here), and I have never experienced the problems that I have been experiencing with WoW this weekend.
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