Satellite A660-12E - Freezes with graphic artefacts

Hello,
Here's my problem :
I bought a Satellite A660-12E. Got it last saturday, transported it with great precautions.
The problem is that when I use a CG dependent program such as a game, the games freezes rapidly, even in the menus, with screen artefacts, symptom of a CG failure (happened in the menus of TF2, alien swarm and while playing Plain SIght). When under windows (with aero and transparency), going on the internet, looking at movies, everything's ok. No problem while using 3DSmax and Mudbox, but didn't check since the last time the problem happened.
Plus the problem doesn't happen the first time I launch a game. Only after a long run of the computer (I use a cooling station and check the temperature : never above 55c ) to download a game on steam, for exemple.
I tried to install my own version of windows 7 (professional 64bit), updated the cg driver, installed a selection of programs from ninite.com, but the problem reappeared.
Since I'm a student with poor resources and worked all summer just to afford a laptop, i'm a bit upset. :/
Does anyone has a solution or should I contact customer support as soon as possible ?
Thanks.

And now the problem happened when I was on the desktop...
Is it possible that it comes from steam ?
Anyway, here comes the logs :
Nom du journal*:System
Source*: EventLog
Date*: 22/09/2010 23:05:12
ID de lvnement*:6008
Catgorie de la tche*:Aucun
Niveau*: Erreur
Mots cls*: Classique
Utilisateur*: N/A
Ordinateur*: Goji-LAPTOP
Description*:
Larrt systme prcdant 23:02:15 le ?22/?09/?2010 ntait pas prvu.
XML de lvnement*:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="EventLog" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32768">6008</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-09-22T21:05:12.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>2275</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Goji-LAPTOP</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>23:02:15</Data>
<Data>?22/?09/?2010</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>1329</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>DA07090003001600170002000F0010000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

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