Gaming Laptop continues to crash and crash... can't find the root of the problem.

Hello everyone. I'm having a bit of an issue with my gaming laptop and no matter what I do, it doesn't seem to fully fix it. I'll try my best to describe it as much as possible and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

So my laptop is the Gigabyte Aorus 15P KD. I've had it for I believe 5 years now. It's worked great for all my gaming and school needs. Mostly I've played VRChat on it and it's never gave me any real issues up until a couple of months ago. First I started noticing some of my games were lagging the more I played it and sometimes when it would crash if I played VRChat in VR. Not long ago I applied more thermal paste to it since the old thermal paste wasn't doing much. I reapplied the thermal paste and the temps went back to normal and the crashes kinda stopped for a while until recently. Realistically, most of the time if it does crash then it would be when I was on VRChat and the timing on the crash depends. It'll either last for hours then crash, or maybe 5 minutes. Rarely has it ever crashed on any other game playing a non-VR game, but it has happened. I can't seem to find the root of the problem. So far I've reapplied thermal paste and reinstalled windows but neither has helped much.

When it crashes, the following happens.

• The laptop goes into the BSOD and is stuck at 0%
• or the laptop freezes for a while, goes into the BSOD and either fully reboots fine or gets stuck at 100%

When I have gotten into the BSOD, these are some of the codes I get:

• DCP_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0X133)
• CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (0X101)

To be honest, my laptop could honestly have more than one issue. The biggest red flag I've seen from my laptop so far that is highest on my list is my SSD. I've used a program to check my SSD and according to the app, 25% health is "good." My biggest fear is buying  a SSD to replace to old one just for the issue not to be solved. Can anyone please help me figure this out? Or point me in the right direction? I'll drop my specs below.

• 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800 @ 2.30GHz
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
• 16GB of Ram
• About 500 GB of SSD