Well well well.....
The fatal error can (depending on "module"/file) be anything from drivers to hardware failur.
My advice is reformating your hard-drive.
Or if you are brave, enter safe-mode, and start deleting programs, drivers etc. backtracking your way through your system, but the way you descripe it, it seems like a windows error.
The reason you most likely can't use your CD-RW from safemode, is because it dosen't load your drivers.
If you have a boot-disk, try that one, and see if you can access your CD-drive that way around.
(BTW - the error-code doesn't give a filename? - ei. Kernl386.exe or something?)
Hope this helps somewhat, it is hard for me to help, when not having my hands on the computer
[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Xandax ]