Blue Screen in Vista 32bit Home Premium

Attached are the debug logs. The crashes started happening on the Thursday morning of Oct. 22. The first one happened at around 3 AM. The second one, on the 23rd, happened at around 2 AM. The 3rd one, on the 24th, happened at around 2 AM as well. The 4th one was less than a hour later than the 3rd one, when I was doing something with the kernel memory dump file. Perhaps I was opening it. The 3rd and 4th ones were the ones that I actually saw happening. The 3rd one happened when I was sitting there, but not doing anything to the computer at the moment. The 4th one happened when the computer was not being responsive when I was trying to view the kernel dump file, or when I was trying to close the Notepad2 that I was using to view the kernel dump file.

The first BSOD was Kernel Stack Inpage Error

The rest were Kernel Data Inpage Error

The debug log names represent chronological order. They are from the minidump stuff.

4a is from the minidump. 4b is from the kernel dump.

Also, I found this error under Event Viewer under System. It seems to appear right before the Blue Screen happens:

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.

Event ID 11
Source atapi

However this error also showed up at 3:15 AM on the 24th, but I don't recall a Blue Screen happening there.

Also, this might be unrelated, but it seems that the Synaptics tray icon shows the left button with a green color, and when I use the touchpad, the blue dot that shows up on touchpad doesn't show anymore. (See attached .png)

Also, I use a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop.

1 - has I/O error with older driver (giveio.sys Wed Apr 03 22:33:25 1996)
2 - status of c0000185 indicates that it means the disk subsystem has experienced a failure.
3 - the same as 2
4a - DISK_HARDWARE_ERROR: There was error with disk hardware
4b - the same as 3

Also, this seems to relate to it:

Also, I found this error under Event Viewer under System. It seems to appear right before the Blue Screen happens:

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.

Event ID 11
Source atapi

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If this is a disk issue (as it seems), then the other errors (such as the touchpad) can be caused by it.

I'd first suggest running a hard drive diagnostic. Instructions on that are here: HD Diagnostic

If the hard drive is starting to die, now is the time to backup your stuff. If you don't back it up now, then data recovery will become very expensive as the drive goes through it's death throes. Also, a disk failure also means that you're going to need your recovery disks to reinstall Windows. If you don't have them or can't find them - then you'll have to contact the system manufacturer for a copy of the disks (less expensive than a copy of Windows).

Any reason why it feels like happening around the 2 to 3 AM range?

Maybe the drive is just sleepy? (just kidding!)

Do you have any disk intensive operations that occur at that time (virus scans, windows updates, etc)? Check the Windows Task Scheduler to see what's working around those times.

The giveio.sys driver (from 1996) is most likely incompatible with Windows Vista/7 - so I'm guessing that it's possible that it's causing an issue (and, if your hard drive passes the diagnostics, I'm willing to blame it for the BSOD's).

Try the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test instead (I'm no good at troubleshooting CD/DVD burning questions).

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So, the blue screens stopped occuring for a few days...and then on today, 10/31/09, it happened again. It didn't get a chance to do a memory dump, and the eventvwr did not log anything suspicious before the crash. The last event in eventvwr before the crash happened at 8:21:56 AM. After I restarted the computer, eventvwr logged that the previous system shutdown at 8:41:01 AM 10/31/09 was unexpected.

Oh, the error was Kernel stack inpage error

stop: 0x00000077 (0xc000000e, 0xc000000e, 0x00000000, 0x1272b000)