What's more likely to be responsible for a "KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR" notice, a fault in XP Home or a physical defect in the motherboard? I've read it could be either and I'd like to know before I gamble $200 on a new copy of XP. The Sony tech guy says replacing XP with an off-the-shelf copy is not advisable because the XP version that came with the computer is customized for the computer, but my ISP told me I might need to reload XP to solve the "Error 797" problem (can't find modem or modem is busy) I started getting about the same time as the blue screen. A repairman removed an RPC virus from the notebook, but that didn't fix either problem. He suggested it could be a fault in the motherboard. CHKDSK has run more than once as /F and as /R, but reports no bad sectors. SCANDISK doesn't seem to be on my machine and, anyway, I read it could affect long file names. I had not added hardware or downloaded programs in the days before the crash aside from an XP security patch. The Sony VAIO system restore disks won't play in my external CD machine and the internal drive on which they would work is broken. Restoring the system to a previous point did not work either. Thank you. -- Steve Holmes

This might be due to incompatible disk or controller drivers, firmware, or hardware check this out http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_fvlq.asp Sign Me Guestbook! jaymc.co.nr

See if this helps . http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_fvlq.asp

You need to get a working cd drive, as I would think that a simple "Repair of XP" would solve the problem. DOS drivers for USB L L

Look in the event viewer for more clues as to what is going on. Also you may want to give this a read. Kernal_data_inpage_error, Please help You need to get a CDROM drive to work on your PC. If your CDROM is an external type. You may need to load the SCSI drivers for it onto your PC for it to work. Post back with what you find in the event viewer. You can also use Aida32 to find your event logs. You can find it by Googleing a search for it. Then download it and install it on the problem PC.

Jamie & Johnw: I get a variety of I/O codes on the blue screen, but it doesn't stay up long enough for me to write them down. One time, a digital snapshot of the screen showed that none of the codes matched codes in the Microsoft webpage. LL & Dave02: Yes, I suppose the internal CD drive would help me, but Sony wants more than $500 to replace or repair it. Repair guys around here (Iowa City, IA) are reluctant to work on Sony notebooks. The $500 would be better spent toward a new notebook, which would at least be an upgrade over this one, purchased in November 2002. Dave02: The event viewer only goes back to 5/22, a few days after the problem started, but since it's a recurrent problem, I may not need to know what happened at the beginning. I assume you're looking only for error items, not information and warnings. Here are the latest errors: System Error; Category: (102); Error code c0000218; parameter 1: e1929a88; parameters 2- 4: 00000000. atapi; did not respond within timeout period. System Error; Category: (102); parameter 1: c03e6be4; parameter 2: c0000013; parameter 3: f9af9554; parameter 4: 0d018860. acpiec: Embedded controller hardware didn't respond within timeout period. This may indicate an error in EC hardward or firmware, or a poorly designed BIOS which accesses the EC in an unsafe manner. Is this the type of information you wanted me to post? I have a few more errors and a ton of warnings. %00

Windows XP Events and Errors Enter the message source and ID in the text field, then click G http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/support/ee.asp ======================================== If you want to stop a blue screen auto reboot so you can read the error message from the screen: Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System Go to Advanced Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings... Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart"