Macbook pro randomly shutting off

Any suggestions why my laptop would randomly shut off? It's been happening for weeks. Have a fan under it and genius bar tested for hardware issue and said it's not hardware. any ideas?

lfbtennis,
since you have a 15-inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro with OS X 10.7.5 installed, you have Recovery mode available to you. Hold down a Command key and the R key as you restart to boot into Recovery mode. Eventually a Mac OS X Utilities menu will appear. Select Disk Utility from that menu. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select the icon that corresponds to your boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that it found errors, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to reboot into normal mode. Try using it as you normally would, and see if the random shutdowns still occur.

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Anonymous UUID:
A6251877-2DD7-C166-E7CF-89F4C969EE70
Thu Sep 25 17:17:40 2014
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff7f9826bf7c): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 3 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff81324a3000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.6.22/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff812126aea0 : 0xffffff8015e22f79
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0xffffff812126aff0 : 0xffffff7f9693ff1b
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0xffffff812126b290 : 0xffffff7f96a2cba9
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0xffffff812126b360 : 0xffffff7f96944478
0xffffff812126b560 : 0xffffff7f96945dc7
0xffffff812126b630 : 0xffffff7f9786e3df
0xffffff812126b700 : 0xffffff7f978987b3
0xffffff812126b780 : 0xffffff7f97880ae0
0xffffff812126b7e0 : 0xffffff7f978813da
0xffffff812126b830 : 0xffffff7f97881754
0xffffff812126b8a0 : 0xffffff7f97881fc8
0xffffff812126b8e0 : 0xffffff7f9784efea
0xffffff812126ba60 : 0xffffff7f9787e940
0xffffff812126bb20 : 0xffffff7f9784dad9
0xffffff812126bb70 : 0xffffff80162cf146
0xffffff812126bb90 : 0xffffff80162d0741
0xffffff812126bbf0 : 0xffffff80162ce1af
0xffffff812126bd40 : 0xffffff8015eb6998
0xffffff812126be50 : 0xffffff8015e26bc1
0xffffff812126be80 : 0xffffff8015e139c5
0xffffff812126bef0 : 0xffffff8015e1e013
0xffffff812126bf70 : 0xffffff8015ec9b9d
0xffffff812126bfb0 : 0xffffff8015ef4196
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.2.4)[D61B2BB9-4289-318D-9197-5E1E13B1 FF32]@0xffffff7f968f0000->0xffffff7f96b58fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[2852ACFE-FD28-3C37-9B39-885201BB8D25]@0xffffff 7f964bf000
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.4.1)[75D81741-64C1-3941-ADFA-9D6B6C434EE4]@0 xffffff7f9689d000
com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDANV50HalTesla(8.2.4)[B0E6AAA7-E970-3D81-8B43-145D56A 3A4AC]@0xffffff7f96b63000->0xffffff7f96e0cfff
dependency: com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.2.4)[D61B2BB9-4289-318D-9197-5E1E13B 1FF32]@0xffffff7f968f0000
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You have the misfortune of owning a 2010 MBP that is experiencing GPU issues:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
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