I have an Alienware m17x laptop. Here are my specs;

Processor:            Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 (2.0GHz)

Graphics Card:     SLI Duel NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

RAM:                    4GB 1333Mhx DDR3

Memory:               320GB (7,200rpm)

OS:                       Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

My computer runs perfectly fine and I have no problems when using it, as far as I can tell, which includes running games like Crysis and UT3 as well as 3D and image manipulation software and I do this with good performance and no problems. However for some reason it will not start up correctly. Every time I turn on my laptop I get the following message;

Checking file system on C:

The type of the file system is NTFS

Volume label is OS.

 

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.

To skip disk checking, press any key within 10 second(s).

 

Most of the time it will count down from 10 and then when it reaches 1 my computer will freeze regardless of whether I press any keys or not. After attempting this a few times my computer will then successfully boot up after reaching 1 second(s) and then will work perfectly. Occasionally it will freeze on the screen that shows a graphic of an alien head and then on rare occasions I will hear a really loud beep and then the following message will appear;

 

Phoenix Secure Core ™ NB

Copyright 1985-2007 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

All Rights Reserved

BIOS Version A02

BIOS Version:

CPU = 1 Processors Detected, Cores per Processor = 4

Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad CPU Q9000 @ 2.00 GHz

FSB Speed: 1066MHz

Memory Clock: 1333 MHz, tCL: 9, tRCD: 9, tRAS: 24, 2T timing, 128-bit

640K System Ram Passed

3838 M Extended RAM Passed

6144 KB L2 Cache

Fixed Disk 0: WDC WD3200BJKT-75F4T0

ATAPI CD-ROM: Optiarc DVDRW/BDROM BC-5600S

Mouse initialized

 

WARNING: The function of Overclock was failed. Please adjust your settings in Setup Menu.

 

Press to resume, to setup

 

I’m sure I wasn’t having this problem with Vista before I upgraded to Windows 7 and I have noticed that while I should have a 320GB hard drive my C drive only has 283GB, which is the only partition I have.

 

I know it’s a lot to read through but hopefully someone will have an idea what’s going on.

Thanks