Satellite L630-10R - Won't boot and blue screen

Hi everyone,
I recently bought this laptop that had everything to satisfy me, unfortunately, I've been encountering a problem since yesterday night and I want to try everything reasonable before bringing it back to guarantee.
I was using the computer quite casually (online games, web browsing, VoIP mostly) when it decided to shutdown and reboot. Now, everytime I try to boot windows, even in safe mode, I get a blue screen as soon as I've entered my password. The same problem happens when trying to run in safe mode.
I thought it could just be a really aggressive and efficient virus and thought it was well deserved, knowing I hadn't installed an antivirus yet. So I burned an Ubuntu liveCD on another computer and tried to recover my data from there, but to no avail : Ubuntu won't start either, instead it just gives me some kind of memdump or stacktrace (at least I guess it is, because it's got hexadecimal addresses and what looks like function names)
I'm kinda stuck and I really don't understand what could have caused this. Any idea would be appreciated. An error code that showed up when trying to boot windows, but that does not _always_ show up, is something along the lines of *DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL*
Thanks in advance,
shin

Hi,
sorry for the late reply, I was busy this week end but I finally solved my problem on sunday in the evening by updating the BIOS from the 1.4 version to the 1.7 version using a bootable CD. No more blue screen when starting windows and no more problem with Ubuntu either (which I had been able to run in the meantime with the "noacpi" option.)
I wasn't able to find the recovery CD like you suggested, I'm not even sure it was in the box - then again, I'm not the most tidy person in the world and it could be anywhere in the room as far as I know...), but thank you anyway for taking the time to reply. =)

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