I got this Alienware laptop in September. It is a refurb M17x R2. I wiped the drive and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit because I wanted to start clean. It has been working great except for one issue. Several times over the first few weeks I kept getting the iaStor error 9 in the event log. I would know it had happened because the whole system basically locked up for about 1 minute. The whole time the hard drive lights where going solid and then I would check the event log and saw the error.

I did some research and saw that drivers seemed to be a big part of it so I downloaded and installed the Intel Rapid store drive and application thinking that would get the latest of everything. I didn't notice any Error 9 messages or locking up until last night (11/23).

I am wondering if I never really fixed it or if something new has happened. I haven't installed anything new.

Here are the times I received the error according to the log:

10/5

10/5

10/12

11/3

11/23

I want to get this fixed. Please give advise.