Emergency!!! Pleeeeease help. Serious Window problem.

[Mana]

I am running Window 2000, v.5.00 (build 2195, SP2). Since
yesterday I started to notice after every 45 to 50
minutes, my desktop stops functioning. Mouse, keyboard
becomes inactive and freezes. Even shutting down the
machine does not work. I have to yank the power cord
physically from the box to make the computer stop
running. As a result next time when I am trying to boot
up the machine again it is going through 'Checking File
system' procedure. And it is happening every time.

Incidentally, I also noticed when the system collapse it
pops up the 'blue screen of death' with a
message 'KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR' along with a bunch of
hex number. Luckily, within the narrow window of active
machine (around 45 minutes to an hour), I managed to
update my Norton Antivirus. But it only found 2 ad-ware.
I tried to remove them but via Antivirus but that failed.
Then when I tried to do to the path to remove those file
physically, by that time window collapsed. I am not sure
whether those two ad-ware's forced Window's kernel to
collapse or there may be some other bigger problem.

 

[DL]

Have you recently updated any drivers? as this can often be caused by
problem drivers, or even failing hardware.
See if yr hd manu has a disk checking utility.
Does the sys run in safe mode OK?