Unexpected reboots in Satellite P100 WXP MCE

Satellite P100-342 - PSPA3E 10 months old. From the very beginning the pc reboots unexpectedly during a working session every 5 minutes about. A complete recovery doesn't solve the problem.
The pc has been sent 3 times to the Toshiba technical service: main board, graphic card memory and hard drive has been changed and bios and graphic card soft updated. After repairs things have improve a little bit and reboots occurs about every hour.
No reboot at all when computer is working alone (downloading big files, playing movies etc..) with no user interaction.

Silas,
Thanks for your interest.
Applications seem to have nothing to do with the problem. I keep a log of all the actions and applications causing a reboot.
Last week I tried to cause a reboot opening a lot of applications and windows at the same time with no results.
However a simple copy and paste, a window opening, internet browsing... may cause the reboot.
The only thing I know is that the cause is not a virus(100%%) nor a cpu temperature problem (95%)

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