Macbook Pro - Display Blackouts

Just curious if anyone is having this issue on their Macbook Pro 2010 model. I've got an early 2010 model (i7 2.66 with GT330M GPU). Apple AHT shows no problems. All updates installed (10.7.3), including Apple's fix for this problem. However yesterday it just went bonkers all together!
Sunday, 12 February 2012
17.06: Display Blackout
20.43: Display Blackout
20.46: Display Blackout
20.54: Display Blackout
21.47: Display Blackout
Here's an extract of the report...
Kernel_2012-02-12-170605_computername.panic
Sun Feb 12 17:06:03 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f80955907): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff81151f7000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f1982a60 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff80f1982ae0 : 0xffffff7f80955907
0xffffff80f1982b70 : 0xffffff7f80a45a64
0xffffff80f1982bc0 : 0xffffff7f80a45b24
0xffffff80f1982c20 : 0xffffff7f80cf2749
0xffffff80f1982d60 : 0xffffff7f80a64bad
0xffffff80f1982d90 : 0xffffff7f8095f282
0xffffff80f1982e40 : 0xffffff7f8095ab84
0xffffff80f1983030 : 0xffffff7f8095be57
0xffffff80f19830f0 : 0xffffff7f817c2336
0xffffff80f1983200 : 0xffffff7f817c282c
0xffffff80f1983220 : 0xffffff7f817bf989
0xffffff80f1983270 : 0xffffff7f817ee4ce
0xffffff80f19836c0 : 0xffffff7f817890aa
0xffffff80f19836f0 : 0xffffff7f817f1c3e
0xffffff80f1983770 : 0xffffff7f817dc44b
0xffffff80f19837d0 : 0xffffff7f817dc846
0xffffff80f1983820 : 0xffffff7f817dcabb
0xffffff80f19838b0 : 0xffffff7f817dd80f
0xffffff80f19838e0 : 0xffffff7f817950b0
0xffffff80f1983aa0 : 0xffffff7f817ddf68
0xffffff80f1983b60 : 0xffffff7f81792119
0xffffff80f1983bc0 : 0xffffff800065239e
0xffffff80f1983be0 : 0xffffff8000652c7a
0xffffff80f1983c40 : 0xffffff800065341b
0xffffff80f1983d80 : 0xffffff80002a3b78
0xffffff80f1983e80 : 0xffffff8000223006
0xffffff80f1983eb0 : 0xffffff8000214829
0xffffff80f1983f10 : 0xffffff800021bb58
0xffffff80f1983f70 : 0xffffff80002aeb80
0xffffff80f1983fb0 : 0xffffff80002d8383
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.NVDAResman(7.1.8)[94BA87BA-B128-3310-9860-98EC67AB7FAF]@0xffffff7f808 f5000->0xffffff7f80bcefff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.8)[F63D4ABE-42DA-33EF-BADD-3415B0CB0179]@0xffff ff7f80880000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.2)[4B3F84DC-18B3-3897-BC56-4E3940878047]@0xff ffff7f808e3000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.2)[FE536983-1897-3D6B-965E-24B5A67080DA]@0 xffffff7f808ab000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(7.1.8)[7596DB8C-AE9D-3C87-B11A-0ED8F940CAF8]@0xffffff7 f80bcf000->0xffffff7f80ef0fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(7.1.8)[94BA87BA-B128-3310-9860-98EC67AB7FAF]@0xffffff7f808 f5000
         com.apple.GeForce(7.1.8)[61FD1644-DA39-3645-9380-7F490FB000DB]@0xffffff7f817870 00->0xffffff7f81846fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(7.1.8)[94BA87BA-B128-3310-9860-98EC67AB7FAF]@0xffffff7f808 f5000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.2)[4B3F84DC-18B3-3897-BC56-4E3940878047]@0xff ffff7f808e3000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.8)[F63D4ABE-42DA-33EF-BADD-3415B0CB0179]@0xffff ff7f80880000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.2)[FE536983-1897-3D6B-965E-24B5A67080DA]@0 xffffff7f808ab000

That's the classic one. Checkout https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3278966. At the end Logic board replacement is the only solution.

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
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The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin. Test while in safe mode. Same problem? After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

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