T410i not responding - HDD light is ON

Dear community,
I am a long time Thinkpad user and a couple of months a go I bought the fourth one in a row. While three former Thinkpads gave me a great service, this one seems to be a mistake ...
It is a T410i model (2537) with i3, 4GB RAM and 128 GB SSD, BIOS version is 1.34, Windows 7 32-bit.
The problem I am facing is that sometimes active applications stop responding and the HDD LED remains ON all the time. The mouse can be moved around, but there is nothing you can do. Task manager would not open.
After 5 - 30 minutes Thinkpad would go blue screen or reboot, but it would not boot anymore, as if it would not recognize the drive. If I power it off / on it will boot again fine.
This happens 2 - 3 times a week, usally in the middle of presentation, or just before you want to save current work.
I noticed the same problem with original SSD, as well as with Seagate Momentus 7200.4 I tried for a week.
Also, it happened with iastor driver from Lenovo, as well as with MS msahci driver.
Any help or idea would be great! Thank you!

It is sad to know that you are facing with your new ThinkPad,
If you have Nvidia graphic card then you need to update it driver from lenovo website.
If still the issue persist then you need to update the Intel Wireless LAN driver also
Make sure you are using updated version of Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver and BIOS
You may refer to the mentioned below web link.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_IN/downloads/default.page?
Hope this will resolve your issue.
Best Regards,
Tanuj
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