XPSP1 BSOD kernel_stack_inpage_error

[Nyaanyaa_Midgardsormr]

So today I got BSOD'd twice on my dad's computer, and once yesterday. The BIOS seems to be set to automatically reboot the computer upon BSOD so I only see the bluescreen for a matter of a seconds, hence cannot read much of the error message, and my dad's an idiot and doesn't want me to change that.

All I could note was "kernel_stack_inpage_error" and somewhere on the screen it read "ftdisk.sys" and something like failed or error after that. Like I said, I could only see the screen for a couple of seconds.

The HDD sometimes makes a weird squeasing noise, at times followed by a clicking noise and the screen hangs up for a few seconds, that started around June. During June/July the computer would also randomly completely crash (usually accommodated by that weird noise of the HDD), i.e. it would instantly turn off, and to reboot you'd have to switch it off on the back of the tower (w/e that switch is called in english, that I/O switch on the PSU) and leave it off for 5 to 15 to sometimes 30 minutes before you could turn it on again and then start normally via the I/O button on the front. At first this only happened when watching videos online, which also used up to 99%CPU, until at some point even the adds on lollakhazam would use up ~99%CPU, and at some point even only clicking a youtube link would crash the computer. However, end of July/start of August that issue seemed to have solved itself.

Also during that period, the computer would sometimes lock in 4bit color mode and 800x600 screen resolution upon startup. Reboot would usually help in that case. However, this got worse beginning this month, 1-2 weeks ago though I updated the graphics card driver (turns out the driver was terribly outdated) and this issue hasn't appeared since.

Furthermore, about a month ago windows has begun to be occasionally stuck in the Classic Theme, without the option to change to XP Theme (i.e. XP Theme does not appear in the drop down menu). When I delete "C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna\luna.msstyle s" (so it restores itself) the option will reappear, just to be gone again, the next time I boot.

So.. a couple days ago I got that weird clicking noise from my HDD again and then a system message saying:

"system shutdown
the system is shutting down. please save all work in progress and log off.
any unsaved changes will be lost. this shutdown was initiated by NT
AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
message: the system process 'c:\windows\system32\services.exe' terminated unexpectedly with status code 128. the system will shut down and restart in 60 seconds."

or something like that.. well i got a german windows so the message came up in german, but that's about what it said. however, windows would then just pretty much hang up on me upon attempting to close firefox, so I couldn't click on anything. I could move around my windows and open task-manager via Ctrl+Alt+Del, attempting to log off from there, but that didn't work either cause my task-manager would just lock up on me then, I could still move around the window but that's it. And after those 60 seconds the system wouldn't restart, but just stay like that and the only way to turn the computer off was via the I/O-Switch on the PSU.

Now yesterday I got that clicking noise again and said BSOD. Microsoft's support site suggested running "chkdsk /r /f" from the command panel, which I did. Took about 6 hours but didn't find anything. Since then I get the clicking noise much more frequently and almost every time I open a large file ("large" being 400MB+) or access a site with any flash elements or just somehow do something that uses up 60-70%CPU. Got the same BSOD today twice, and after the second time, like 2 minutes after rebooting the computer, I got the system message about status code 128 again, when I was just typing something in Google Search.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OS: Windows XP Professional SP1
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2GHz)
RAM: 768MB
Motherboard: Dunno... How do I find out? >.>
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
HDD: Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023A 160GB

[sruon]

SP1 is so glitched it could be anything, obviously the clicking noise is worrying but if it was me i'd start full formating or at least try to update to SP2/SP3

[Nyaanyaa_Midgardsormr]

Mnn yeah, I almost expected something like that tbh lol. I would've done that a long time ago, but we have a cracked version so updating from microsoft's site isn't gonna work.. (at least not w/o changing the VLK) and my dad doesn't want to dload the update from some other site for w/e reason, or me to do it for that matter. Guess I've gotta try to get some sense into his brains lol.

[Olo401]

I actually had this and similar errors on a machine at work.. The error itself is caused while the OS is trying to read/write to the memory page file, and is a symptom of a failing hard drive controller. The squealing/clicking noise is another symptom.

There's two major solutions. The first is pretty obvious - replace the hard drive. The second is to increase the amount of system memory (as much as possible if you can manage) so that Windows isn't constantly reading/writing to the page file. You could send the drive to be repaired, but that's really a waste of money when you can get a new hard drive for MUCH less.

Once you have the new hard drive in your system and the OS installed, you should be able to move anything you need from the old drive. Expect to lose some data to bad sectors though.

[Binkie]

Clicking usually means click of death. Could be bad sectors, or just a problem with the arm that reads the disk. Gotta replace the hard drive. Trying to fix it is a waste of time with how cheap hard drives are these days, get all the files you want off of it before it gets worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwYSd...eature=related

[Kaisha]

I'd slap that hard drive into another PC and start backing her up.

[Nyaanyaa_Midgardsormr]

Mnn, it doesn't sound like that. It sounds more like a "Zziiiimmm" like a Formula 1 car passing by @ 300kph but 1-2 octaves higher, followed by a single "click" or "brp" about 1-2 seconds after. It's upon the "click/brp" where my computer hangs up for a few seconds, and apparently sometimes BSOD's. I just tried, and it seems I can actually force that, just by opening any larger folder (the "Zziiiimmm --- click/brp!" not the BSOD). So it's not a constant "click - click - click - click ..." but a single "Zziiiimm --- click/brp!" whenever I'm opening some larger folder.

Edit: Hmm.. but it does not always hang up it seems.

Update: Ok, HDD just went "tatatatatatatatata..." on me, computer hung up, and got BSOD with "kernel_data_inpage_error", only had Task-Manager, VLC Media Player and Firefox with 3 tabs open (gmail, facebook, BG).

[Nyaanyaa_Midgardsormr]

Update 2:
This again:
"System shutdown
The system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off.
Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was

message:"
The leftout part being blank. Happened when I tried to access google. fuck I hate this computer >.>. Same odd thing as last time happened then, I could move around windows etc, but that's it. Oh, and upon reboot I'm stuck in classic theme again.