Blue screen crash. Help?

[sandia911]

Blue screen crash. Help?

I need a pro´s help. I recently had a crash in Windows that´s left me baffled. I was watching a video on my laptop, when I suddenly heard a wierd noise. I ignored it at first, but it kept creepìng up on me. Eventually, the noise lead to a crash, and the blue screen came up. Here´s what it said (in brief)

Kernal_Data_Inpage_Error

***STOP: oX0000007A (and 4 more successive blocks of numbers (just like this one) but containing a combination of 10 different characters & numbers)

then it wrote

atapi.sys

It started to dump physical memory
physical memory dump complete

Through the process, a tapping noise could be heard coming from inside the latop (almost sounded like a clicking clock)

I recently installed a video code called Vp7 from On2 technologies, is that the culprit? I needed to watch a video. That´s the only reason I installed it. Other than that, no other installations recently except of course, windows updates.

Another strange occurance, three seemingly harmless programs have added themsevlves to startup. Without my doing. They are

mHotkey.exe
Soundman.exe
and scardsvr.exe ( i dont recognize this one)

Also, after a few crashes, I decided to enter BIOS (everything looked ok there), and then at one particular boot, the operating system failed to load. I swear I didn´t change any BIOS settings. In fact, on boot, it says BIOS is shadowed now.

What do I do? I can´t load Windows? I can´t even load safe mode. I can only enter Bios, that´s about it, and it looks normal in BIOS.

Help

I run Windows Home edition

[Stereo_Type]

Check out these links for starters or just Google it, like I did. it seems like a lot of people have had the same problem. there is a wealth of info on this issue. Sounds like a memory test is in order first off. good luck.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=58756

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-470436.php

[peat moss]

Why would you post it here ? Sounds like a fan ( video card ) or harddrive going ? atapi.sys is a required win file so no idea what that meant in reference to your problem .

Check out these links for starters or just Google it, like I did. it seems like a lot of people have had the same problem. there is a wealth of info on this issue. Sounds like a memory test is in order first off. good luck.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=58756

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-470436.php

Well this just about covers it :

Resolving the Problem

Stop 0x7A is usually caused by a bad block (sector) in a paging file, a virus, a disk controller error, or failing RAM. In rare cases, it is caused when nonpaged pool resources run out. It is also caused by defective hardware.

Got to luv the windows errors .


Auto merge my ass .