Macbook crashes before booting CD

Hi all!
July 27th I went on vacation by plane and ofcourse I fully charged my 2010 Macbook Pro for the 9 hour trip in the plane towards my destination.
While on the road the the airport, I quickly had to check something on my Macbook and it was working perfectly fine. I did not boot it up again untill I sat in the plane. This is where I noticed it took an awful long time to get passed the Apple Logo while I could hear it work like a madman and going crazy hot.
I eventually just gave up and hold on to the power button to shut it down. I did not have my Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation CD with me and no further knowledge on any of the things I could do before I had internet access.
What I did on my vacation when I had internet access was:
Reset PRAM
Hardware Test
See if it could actually find my Hard Drive
Results:
Did reset it, but still I could not get passed the loading screen.
Hardware Test showed no results in the quick test, but showed an error in the long test. The error message: 4SNS/1/40000000: TCOP-85.250
It could find my Hard Drive
Now I was still stuck with a broken Macbook untill I got home a week later.
The first thing I did was put in the CD and boot it up. I did various things:
Reset PRAM again
Verify and Repair Disk
Verify and Repair User Permissions
Reinstall Mac OS X without erasing the Hard Drive
Results:
Did reset, but nothing else.
Verify showed it needed repair because of corruption of multiple files, and I did. It repaired succesfully.
Verify, again, showed it needed repair, and I did. Repaired succesfully aswell.
Reinstalling the OS... This is where it got weird, really weird. Sometimes the HD would not even show up (this happened multiple times, even when going to Disk Utility), sometimes it said it would save my files and settings, but most of the times it would not even say this. I also never got the option to wipe or save my files. My user manual said a button, called Options, should show up. I have never seen it to date.
So when I could continue with reinstalling, it would always fail. I looked up what it could be, and I tried several things:
Put on a hard drive
Turn off all the optional installation options
I could not do #1 because my External Hard Drive was not usable with my Mac and had no place to wipe it, so I was forced to do #2.
And guess what. IT WORKED!
After it installed, I instantly reset the PRAM one more time to be sure. My macbook booted up again and it worked somewhat ok. It missed some apps (app store and stuff), it stuttered often, and it froze for a few seconds every few minutes. I thought it was still doing stuff from the installation or something, I don't know, I just somewhat ignored it.
When I tried to install software updates, it completely crashed. I had to again use my CD and repair the Disk to even use my Macbook again. I did not even bother updating the machine again after this. But yesterday it started stuttering a lot more when I was watching a show on my Macbook. It eventually froze, and I could again not boot it. I went to sleep, and this morning it booted up normally. After a few minutes, it completely froze again (the gray screen with: "you have to restart your computer" came up aswell) and now I can't even boot the CD anymore. It goes to the grey screen, as explain in the brackets, before it even reaches to the CD. I am completely stuck now.
Could this be extreme corruption on the disk, or a hardware failure?
I could not find what the error means, that the hardware test gave me. I see different things, ranging from my Logical Board to the Fans to the Memory.
So if anyone knows, thanks in advance

My game center and boot camp crashes, i have tried safe boot, single user mode to check hard disk and disk utility to repair permissions.
I restarted my computer and tried it again and again but it keeps crashing after i choose how much gbs i want on the windows partition.
All i want is windows and mac on one macbook so i can run windows and mac apps.
(i've also tried parallels desktop app, still didnt work)

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