Force to restart grey box

Hi my MacBook for some reason keeps, on forcing me to restart. It a grey box in the middle of the screen. I went to disk utility fixed problems but still the force to restart pops up

Sounds like you have a incompatible at boot kernel extension file.
Do the #8 Reinstall Just OS X method + Software Update fully here and other Steps as necessary.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Any third party software that fails to work, check with the developer for a update and compatability with your OS X verison before applying.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
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Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
DAR=0x000000000705824B PC=0x00000000004F017C
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Exception state (sv=0x1A74CC80)
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LR=0x004F0164; R1=0x079A3C80; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
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0x004F0164 0x1BC74CE0 0x002BE128 0x002BE708 0x002BDD34 0x000A9894
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver(2.2.5)@0x1bc73000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.2.8)@0x43f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4.4)@0x475000
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5)@0x4dd000
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Exception state (sv=0x1A74CC80)
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Exception state (sv=0x1BA4DC80)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000;
LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
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