Satellite A660 crashes

My Tosh Satellite A660 - 11 M PSAW3E (Windows 7 Ultimate) was working fine until I installed the MS security updates March 2012, which included the updated for Microsoft Office Pro 2007. After installation, he immediately started crash shortly after starting upwards and the Action Center kept saying that he did not have a new power driver.

I used the system restore to restore to the rear for just before the updates and which seem to help - the Action Center, said he has no problems - and the system seems to be OK. Some of MS Mar 2012 resettled and returned crash problem updates.

I used the system restore again to return to the State of pre update. However, despite his return to the State to update pre and manually uninstall the Office 2007 Pro update, my A660 continues to suddenly crash at intervals frequent, but different - sometimes, it's OK for an hour or 2 and other times it crashes within minutes of boot upward.

Ideas and help would be very welcome because I am pulling my hair over this.

Hello

Have you tried the HARD drive recovery process or have you tried to restore the system using the recovery disk?
Do this!
I can't believe that you can not use some MS updates because of this problem

Retrieve the computer laptop back to factory settings and check how would go to the laptop.

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