Qosmio X500-10X returns to windows during gaming

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Qosmio X500-10X running 64 bit windows 7, and for some reason it frequently and repeatedly returns to windows while gaming. The reason is unknown, although it looks as if something in windows is drawing attention to itself, but their are no alerts or additional icons visible in the task bar once back in windows. Additionally some games can be very difficult to return to once in windows.
Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
John

Hi,
Just a brief update, i have checked the windows action center, and when the computer returns to windows, the action center reports this as a video hardware error. This leads me to suspect that either their is a problem with the graphics card itself, or that an updated driver is needed, although i am uncertain as to which. I am currently running the latest drivers available for the X500 running the GTS 250 available from the Toshiba website, and have tried re-installing them in case they had somehow become corrupted, so apart from waiting for the release of a new driver i'm out of ideas.
Thanks,
John

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Sorry for my english..
Good morning.
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Either you will give up the Windows 8.1 and will switch back to supported Win 7 or you would use Win 8.1 but without the automatic HDMI support.

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In December 2009 I purchased a Toshiba Qosmio X500 - Model No. PQX33A-00X00J
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THANK YOU THANK YOU, for any help you can give big ro small
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WOW, thanks Macius for that great, full and thorough reply...cheers mate
I suspected I didn't have a recovery partition - so thanks for confirming it as I planned to risk it and try! I guess it doesn't really matter why, and it would be futile to go and blame the re-seller or Toshiba at this late stage in the game in hopes they would help...
Yeah, I just went to Microsoft Software Recovery hoping to download Win 7 OS and create a recovery disk but of course Microsoft would NOT allow it due to it being software that was pre-installed on the device blah blah blah (see error image)
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