Satellite L500-1XD constantly restarting & displaying blue recovery screen

I bought a Toshiba Satellite L500-1XD laptop from an Argos store in August. Soon after I got it it occasionally restarted itself and displayed the blue recovery screen saying the laptop has recovered from a hardware failure. This has become more frequent recently and it often shuts down, displays blue screen, restarts and does this over and over again.
I have not installed many new programmes on the laptop and have installed all updates. I have removed any programmes I did install with the exception of Microsoft Office.
Another thing that might be related if that when the laptop starts up it says the Toshiba Service Station has stopped working and tries to check for a solution to the problem.
I would any appreciate any advice on how I could perhaps remedy this
Thanks in anticipation

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That means the preinstalled Windows version is still installed, right?!
Well, I think its hard to say why it happens It could be a software or hardware malfunction. Both could be possible.
The most reasons for blue screens are drivers or hardware itself Are all devices installed properly in device manager or do you see yellow exclamation marks?
In your case I would try to reinstall Windows. Maybe its only a software or driver issue
Furthermore if you have installed two RAM modules, test it with one module only. You can also use Memtest86 or another RAM diagnostic tool to test the RAM modules for failures.

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