Got the blue screen of death on my Dell machine. Ugh.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
*** STOP: 0x0000000A 0xFFFFFFE8 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x805256f0

According to MS support:
MORE INFORMATION
Stop error 0x0000000A (Stop 0x0A) indicates that there was an attempt in kernel mode to touch pageable memory at too high a process internal request level (IRQL). Typically, this error occurs when a driver uses an incorrect memory address. Other possible causes of this error are an incompatible device driver, a general hardware problem, and incompatible software.

I've been trying to roll back to 'working' restore points, but no luck so far. Ugh. I am really hoping none of the hardware is failing on me...
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Update (8:23pm):
Reset the BIOS and restored to Tuesday's settings. I think we're golden! Now I'm getting paranoid. I may head off to Walmart later and buy an external drive for backup.

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