Thinkpad w510 video card died?

Hi
1. So i own W510. Some days ago video card stopped working in the middle of watching streaming video. It works fine in safe mode but when i use video driver it crashes right on login to windows. I was using windows 8. Also if i deinstall drivers - it works just fine.
I tried clean install of windows 7. Fan and heatsink are totally clean. BIOS is latest, since months ago.
I tried lenovo drivers on both of the systems. I tried removing each of the 4 ram modules. Tried memtest. I also tried nvidia current, beta and also older nvidia drivers on both systems. I'm a computer tech so i'm pretty sure i tried to isolate every possible software issue... It just crashes with nvidia related BSOD. Is my video card dead? I had that overheating problem of GPU reaching ~85 degrees during work sometimes, like in some other threads i've seen on this forum...
2. My warranty expired some months ago. I want to buy an extension warranty. Website says "There are currently no Service Offerings for this system.". I live in israel and when i call IBM israel - they give me number of lenovo israel. I call lenovo - nobody picks up. Please advice? I'm panicking, its way too expensive laptop just to "die"
Thanks!
[update] After the computer way lying away for a couple of days - i was able to boot it and everything works. Its sort of not normal, i have to get it checked. My second question about extended warranty still applies. And would be really nice to hear some thoughts about the video issue.
[post update] It just crashed again with the same issue after like 5-10 minutes of working. Maybe its related to it heating up and a PCB loses some contact or something. video_tdr_failure nvlddmkm.sys BSOD. And now again, after half an hour of being off it was able to start. After 5-10 minutes of being on it hanged, flashed and then showed a "Video driver succesfully recovered" message. Definetely seems like video card or video ram dying. And after some minutes it flashed the same message again twice and after a moment went into the same BSOD.

Yes that's how it looks like. Trying to get ahold of some local place/service center to get a warranty extension.
Any idea how much would it cost without a warranty?
Its i7 extreme cpu, temps get to 80-90c under loads

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