Stuttering, bleeps, and lost DVD drive on Satellite M40-149

Hi
For a while now the laptop will run ok for around 1 - 2 hours, then all of a sudden the speakers will start making random high pitch very loud distorted bleeps. When this starts, the system starts stuttering. Every 2 seconds or so it will freeze for about 1/4 of a second. All processing freezes - including sound and display. This is annoying but usually a gentle shake sorts it out...
Occasionally when this happens the DVD drive will disappear too, and I need to restart to get it back. Sometimes I need to leave it off for a short while so I think this may be something to do with overheating?
Anyway, my main problem now is that the DVD drive is very rarely present. I've used some firmware analysis tools and the port connection to the drive is present but the laptop cannot communicate to it. I've thought perhaps updating the DVDs firmware may fix this but I haven't been able to yet.
I couldn't find any previous reports of this. Does anyone have an idea what this could be? Or how I can fix it?
If it came to it I'd be happy to buy an external DVD drive, but the presence of the bad connection is interfering with some other tasks I'm doing....
Thanks,
David.

LOL :D I have read on many websites that the iTunes software makes troubles and is not fully compatible with Microsoft.
Apple and Microsoft together ?:| nice idea ;)
Thanks for the info dude ;)

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