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I just had breakfast

Poor Juno. I wish you a swift recovery.

Fortunately, OS X defragments 'in the background', while the computer is on, so I don't have to manually wait and do it myself. It could also be a browser issue, in which case clearing out your cache could fix it. More than likely, a defragment will do the trick. Failing that, a format.

if that one doesnt work try power defragmenter

I don't really know if defragmenting will help with the crashing ... I hope it does though. Kernel Inpage Data Error is what comes up, with a Stop Code of 7a. The fixes tend to be defrag/reinstall windows/reformat, or to get a new hard drive ('cause it might be dying). I only have to have the laptop last out until I get a new laptop/PC sometime at the start of the first term - I'm thinking of getting the aluminium Unibody Macbook Pro 13" I can get a rebate on it when I buy an ipod touch with it, which basically gets me a free/very cheap iPod Touch, plus the student discount

I ran a chkdsk when this first started, nothing came up. I set it to run chkdsk the next time the computer turns on yesterday, but it never happened. I'll run it right away once defraggler is finished running. Sometimes I'll go a week without getting the BSOD, but others it'll happen a couple of times a day.

This is quite literally a different language to me.......so glad my brother has a degree in ICT - he does all that stuff for me

This is quite literally a different language to me.......so glad my brother has a degree in ICT - he does all that stuff for me

You need to look out for bad sectors, also make sure its set to scan for bad sectors and automatically fix any issues..

Your bsod.. what is the actual error? There are lots of causes.

I saved all the error information in a notepad file on the laptop which is currently defragging. But I remember it was a Kernel Inpage Data Error with a Stop code of (lots of 0s)7a.

Well, you either have some bad sectors on your hd(a sign of which your hard drive is starting to fail, so start backing up) or there is an issue with your current RAM.. which can be easily fixed by replacing it

If chkdsk isnt reporting any bad sectors, then it'll be your RAM.

Ah, cool. There's a cover on the bottom of my laptop so it'd be fairly easy just to replace the RAM, as long as I can find a suitable replacement. I think it runs on 2x 1GB at the moment ... not sure. Defragging of secondary partition is at 80% now, so not too much longer until I can run Chkdsk then

Make sure you tick both the boxes aswell, as one of them "Scans for bad sectors"

Burnt my finger making toast