Upon boot stuck on 1st screen and beeping

Yesterday, I had a bit of a shock. I got the bluescreen of death, full on blue screen, lots of writing, a filedump then the laptop switched off. I tried starting it, nothing, unplugged it and tried again, nothing. I took out the battery changed the socket it was plugged into, put the battery back in plugged in the mains, and tried again. Nothing.
I called a friend, who suggested that I take out the RAM and put it back in, something that seems to work for some laptops. I unplugged and took out the battery, took out the two RAM chips and put them back in, closed everything and tried to re-start it, and it worked.
Start up screen!! Then.. at the Toshiba Leading Innovation >>> screen, it stopped, and started beeping and wouldn't start.
(I'll just throw in here that I did call Toshiba International Hotline, who after a few minutes of Q&A, name etc, and problem details, put me on hold to confer with a supervisor then told me that she would have to reboot her computer and could she call me back in a 2-3 minutes. Not like I had a choice, but she did have my phone number so, ok. I am still waiting for her to call me back, and despite having my email address, no email).
Back to the problem.
Laptop stuck on the bootup Toshiba splash screen, beeping without stopping, I had the choice of pressing F2 for Setup or F12 for Multiboot. I went into the setup, didn't see anything amiss so exited, rebooting. Again beeping on the first splash sceen. I pressed ESC and the beeping stopped and the bootup continued, going on to the initial appearence of the MS flag which disappeared and was replaced with a warning that my C: drive needed to be checked (again, something that happens atleast 1-a-week and has been happening for the last 3 or so months), and without pressing any key I was informed that the check had been stopped.
So, back to the windows login screen, I logged in, and waited until Win 7 64bit had finished loading.
First thing I did was to backup everything I had to.
Then I noticed that my firewall (Zonealarm) was asking questions, as if I had just installed it. Strange since it was the first application I installed when I got the laptop. O??!!??
I was able to surf, print, etc, etc.
I then shutdown for the night. This morning I started the laptop, and it got as far as the splash screen (Toshiba Leading Innovation >>>) and then started beeping. "Wonderful"
I pressed ESC, and got the same "Disk checking" error message etc, etc.
I got the same questions form Zonealarm as last night, looks like the settings didn't "catch".
I need some help here. What is going on?? What do I need to do?
I can send the laptop in, but at the moment I am in the Caribbean, and will be here for sometime. However if push comes to shove, I still have warranty so I will send it in if necessary.
Or, is there something I can do here?
How about if someone from Toshiba International Support (949-859-4273 is the number I called) gets in touch with me. I did register my machine, that was confirmed by the woman who I talked to last night.
Help.!! Please.

Sorry I thought I had mentioned it, but upon re-reading the post I realised I hadn't.
I have a P500-ST6822.
I have installed the updates that Toshiba has sent out including the BIOS one. I always make sure that I update the proper versions of software because I am out in the middle of no-where and if something goes wrong, help is days or weeks away, not minutes or or hours.
I will check the "Product Support" section again. Thanks.
esosm1987 wrote:
I am not a Toshiba support rep, just to get that out of the way, but what model are you using here? Did not see that even listed. May want to use the F2 method on boot to get into your BIOS and load the factory default settings there. Also, you may want to check under 'Product Support' here and see if your model has an updated BIOS package for flashing. Just a quick thought for you to try.

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