KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

[heather]

my computer (HP Pavilion N5425-LAPTOP Windows XP) keeps
making a loud winding noise, freezing, and then
displaying a blue screen which says

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut
down to prevent damage to your computer

KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

STOP: 0X0000007A
***(0XC03E6674, 0XC000000E, 0XF999D558, 0X00885860)
*** atapi.sys- address F999D558 base at F9991000 date
stamp 3d6ddb04

Beginning dump of physical memory

 

[Tim Newton [MSFT]]

If the computer physically makes an odd noise when it boots, then you most
likely have a bad hard disk or hard disk controller. Atapi.sys is your basic
IDE hard disk driver, so that doesn't really tell us to much except that the
cause of the blue-screen is hard disk related. Do you have any better luck
coming up in safe mode? I would normally say to just try updating your hard
disk controller driver, but if the drive is making a louder than normal
whirring noise, it may have gone bad.

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