HP Pavilion Freezes when watching a video then crashes

[ST34]

Once a week, when I am watching a video on the internet, my computer will freeze and make a beeping sound for 1-3 seconds.  Then it will try to reboot stating that the Hard Drive is unable to be found.   I press the power button to shut it off and then restart it.  Once I restart it, the laptop reboots and states it found the hard drive and I am fine.  I can go back to using the computer and watching a video on the internet.  I am not sure if this is a hard drive issue or an operating system issue.

[WAWood]

@ST34 

Are you using WiFi for the streaming?  What browser are you using?

This could all be the result of simply trying to stream videos and that is putting a major stress on the laptop, causing it to crash.

I do streaming with mine, but I have it connected to my media server with wired networking.  And, the media server is doing the video transcoding, not the laptop.  Even then, with a  4-core processor, the cores generally reach 90% on a regular basis.

If I was connected via WiFi, I would probably be having the same issue as you -- as the additional load of handling the WiFi connection would overpower the laptop.