My laptop is about 4 years old and recently keeps coming up with this blue screen error message. It started about 3 months ago, coming only when I didn't touch anything for about 5 minutes but now it comes up constantly regardless of whether I'm doing anything or not. The error code is STOP: 0x0000007A It also tells me to disable BIOS memory options such as cacheing or shadowing as a possible solution but I really know nothing about computers so I have no idea what this means or how to do it. All virus scans have come up clean so far. Any help would be much appreciated, especially a step-by-step solution so I can try and fix it myself before paying stupid amounts for someone else to! Thanks.

Basics:


0x0000007A: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

(Click to consult the online MSDN article.)
Bug Check 0x7A: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

A page of kernel data was not found in the pagefile and could not be read into memory. This might be due to incompatible disk or controller drivers, firmware, or hardware.


Windows NT 4.0 Setup Troubleshooting Guide {KB 126690} NT 4 (Recommendations for the current error message are buried down inside this article, which isn’t necessarily limited to NT 4.)
INFO: Windows NT 4.0 Setup Troubleshooting Guide

Connecting a Hard Disk Drive in Slave Only Mode Leads to System Halt During Resume From Standby {KB 330100} Win XP SP1 (Windows installed on a slave drive.)
Connecting a hard disk drive in slave only mode leads to system halt during resume from standby

BIOS Manufacturers Should Not Clear the IDE Decode Enable Bit in _STM ACPI Method {KB 913379} Win 2000, Win XP, Server 2003, Vista
BIOS manufacturers should not clear the IDE Decode Enable bit in the _STM ACPI method


Troubleshooting Windows STOP Messages



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BSOD
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Read the post HERE for a few diagnostic ideas and post back any relevant data.

Originally Posted by jonesie21x

My laptop is about 4 years old and recently keeps coming up with this blue screen error message. It started about 3 months ago, coming only when I didn't touch anything for about 5 minutes but now it comes up constantly regardless of whether I'm doing anything or not. The error code is STOP: 0x0000007A It also tells me to disable BIOS memory options such as cacheing or shadowing as a possible solution but I really know nothing about computers so I have no idea what this means or how to do it. All virus scans have come up clean so far. Any help would be much appreciated, especially a step-by-step solution so I can try and fix it myself before paying stupid amounts for someone else to! Thanks.

My laptop started doing similar after 3 years, and I found that I needed a new battery.
Hope this works for you too.

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