Graphics card fail ? (Please help)

Hi,
I got my macbook pro early 2011 15in i7 for like 2 years now and i have a problem since yesterday.
I tried to open an MP4 with VLC (1080p) and to my surprise the screen turns black after some stripes i reboot my mac and the loading screen has green stripes in it, but when it finishes loading it just stays gray and doesn't turn on.
I let it go for like 10 minutes nothing happened and it's just when i restarted it with a hard shut down that it worked again, i reset the PRAM and SMC too.
Today what it does is, when i try to open a game or a 1080p video with any player it just cashes and becomes wierd, even watching videos on youtube makes it crash.
I tried to reinstall Mac OS x Mountain Lion but it says that it can't be done because my disk is not on a GUID partition scheme which i tried to change but it didn't work.
And when i go to the recovery or to the windows partition it just turns blue with black stripes.
I did a lot of researches on this but i found nothing so if you could help me please that would be very nice here are some pictures that i took

I would love to but i can't do that right now because of some work i have to do on it, i haven't starded photoshop yet to see if it's gonna crash again but i also installed Adobe Air 3.8 yesterday and i wonder if that's what caused it to crash, i just uninstalled it from my computer i don't know if it's gonna do anything to it.

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