Go from IDE mode to AHCI mode for your SATA devices by running the Microsoft Fix It tool to enable AHCI driver support. Worked Flawlessly on Windows 7 SP1. After running the MS Fit It Tool, reboot, enter the BIOS, change your controller mode to AHCI, save the BIOS settings and reboot back into Windows. With any luck you should not see the BSOD :p
Microsoft Fit It Tool – Enable Sata AHCI mode
Open an admin level command prompt and type
“powercfg –h off”
and hit enter. That’s it. This will disable hibernation and automaticly remove the hiberfil.sys file.
Newegg.com – My favorite online retailer for Computer Hardware. When my local shop can’t get it they are who I go to. Fast and great prices. Great customer service.
Tweakguides.com – A collection of system & application tweaking guides. Lots of good stuff here.
Tech ARP (Formally Adrian’s Rojak Pot) – Great comp. tech site. Have to check out their CPU, Video Card & other comparison charts.
Free BIOS Optimization Guide – Brought to you by TechARP a great guide covering almost every BIOS setting I’ve seen around with good descriptions and dismisses some of the myths and legends with facts.
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows – Probably the best overall Windows site out there.
Old Version – Find old versions of your favorite shareware. Because newer is not always better.
Silent PC Review – Learn how to make your PC or HTPC as quite as possible. Remember no CAPS (shouting) allowed.
Startech – Startech has hard to find custom tech tools and equipment. From cables, switches & adaptors to testing and creation tools.
TinyUrl – Make super long url’s into small simple urls.
Jinx – Clothing for gamers & geeks.
Think Geek – Stuff for gamers & geeks.
Windows Sysinternal – Great system apps created by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell recently bought by Microsoft
Twit Netcast Network – Great group of tech netcast staring Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, John C. Dvorak and other tech bigleaguers.
MonoPrice.com – Cheap, High Quality Audio, Video, Tech cables & converters, and many hard to find specialty items.
Interfacelift – Fantastic desktop wallpapers.
http://www.videohelp.com – All around computer audio / video guides, apps and methods.
http://www.doom9.net – DVD backups & other encoding
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
Visit the Darik’s Boot and Nuke Sourceforge project page for the latest version
 Dos 5.0 – 639 KB Dos 6.0 – 685 KB Dos 6.21 – 683 KB
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