BSOD, atapi.sys, and hard drive clunking

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My brand new computer (a Compaq notebook) has started to freeze up randomly. The hard drive starts to click and clunk repeatedly, and a blue screen displays this error:

Kernel stack inpage error
or
Kernel data inpage error

STOP: 0x0000007A (0xc07ba3a0,0xc000000e,0xf7474 384,0x13aa8860)
atapi.sys- address f7474384 base at f7467000, DateStamp 4110b4d

It tells me to disable BIOS memory caching and shadowing, but, it being a Compaq, I can't get into BIOS.

The problem has persisted after doing a system restore and after reformatting and reinstalling Windows. (I have XP Home Edition, and I did not delete the recovery partition).

Is this a problem I can fix, or is something wrong with my hard drive or other hardware?
 

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