Satellite P100-434 startup issue BSOD

Hello everybody!
I have Toshiba Satellite P100-434 laptop and lately I have encountered many problems during the startup.
1. The laptop starts normally up to the writing the password. Then, in the middle of typing BSOD.
2. The laptop gets BSOD or turns off about 2 seconds after the Microsoft bar has appeared.
3. The laptop doesn't turn on - after launch there is only one flash of three blue diodes on the right and the screen stays blank. No Toshiba welcome screen.
After few attempts I succeed with getting the Toshiba welcome screen (it's after the second flash), but there are another issues later, the laptop turns off or tries to Launch Startup Repair. It says only about unspecified error and restores back to the previous state.
4. I tried to enter the Safe Mode, but few times I encountered the same: the laptop turns off after loading some drivers.
BSOD are too short for me to spot what is going on - I spotted only BAD POOL something and IRQL NOT EQUAL something as if it was something with drivers, presumably the NVIDIA display driver. I uninstalled it and downloaded new one and installed it (version 7.15.11.5666). Ths is NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. Once there was some information about dxgkrnl.sys?
I did Windows Memory Test at startup - no errors.
I scanned for any viruses: my AVG removed some Cryptor virus, but the problem still is there.
The OS is Windows Vista Home Premium SP 2.
I don't know what is the problem. Is it the display driver or any other driver? Or maybe some power related problems? Any advice welcome!

Additional information:
Yesterday I encountered again the same problem: BSOD during typing the password: IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL; STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8888E1E3), disk.sys address 8888E1E3 base of 88880000, DateStamp 49e01ef2.
I turned the laptop off manually and after 30 some attempts I succeeded with switching it on again (up to then there was no Toshiba welcome screen and the display remained blank) to meet up with another BSOD shortly after launch of Windows:
STOP 0x0000000A (0x0000000B, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0x8B48F3AD)
The next launch the system made the CHKDSK. There were plenty of index entries being deleted, but there were not bad sectors or anything. When I finally got through all this, I did another diagnostic of the HDD, but it showed no problems.
Anyway: I would like to know whether the problem is hardware or rather software related, because I wouldn't take my laptop to repair if there is something I could do by downloading/reinstalling.

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