Alright, first off let me introduce myself I'm more of an advanced user for PCs.

Second off here are my specs

M17X Laptop
2.83 Ghz CPU Dual Core
4 GIG RAM 1333 MHz
320 GIG HDD (where OS is on) and 500 gig data
4870 GPU
Windows 7 Home Preimum 64 bit (completely legit, it came from Alienware)

Brand new laptop got it for christmas spent nearly $2,500 on it. And the problem comes in mutli-tasking.

The difficult thing about this problem is I've been having a hard time of pin pointing why it's doing what it's doing.

To give you an example I will play Crysis, AC1, all kinds of games for hours and hours.

However if I'm say click on Control Panel to change a setting, or open up firefox it will sometimes quit responding. I would say that it does this 10-20% of the time, and out of those times 50% of the time it requires a reboot either hard or soft.

Control panel seems to really act up the must though.

I installed Anti-virus from day one and never recieved even so much as a warnring of a virus plus I've already re-formated the drive once therefore the OS has been on the PC for less then a month.

One thing of note I did remember last night is when I had all my music on the 320 GIG HDD it would occasionally skip in sound like a buzz noise would come through. I then for storage reasons copied my music files over to my 500 GIG and I recieve no such noise anymore so I have a feeling the 320 GIG HDD is the culprit here.

Any suggestions?

I think the most difficult problem about this issue is that I get no error messages outside of the programs not working, and it doesn't seem to happen all the time nor have I be able to recreate the problem on a constinent basis.

In fact most of the time I'm able to fix most of my PC problems by a simple google, this isn't the case which is why I've joined this forum.

Any additional information you require please let me know.

Any suggestions?