I plugged in a cheapo USB hub into my Windows Vista Ultimate desktop and everything froze. I waited for 5 minutes and the screen was still frozen, and there was no disk activity. So I proceeded to reboot the machine via the reset button, and boom I got a blue screen of death (BSOD):
0x0000007b stop error
I then tried Safe Mode and got the same BSOD it seemed like when it was loading or right after it loaded:
crcdisk.sys
So I thought perhaps my BIOS setting got messed up but they looked fine. I had switched from IDE mode to AHCI in the last few months, and so I theorized that perhaps Windows got messed up and thought I was still running IDE. So I went into the BIOS and disabled native SATA and switched to legacy IDE mode, but still no go, so I switched back to SATA. Frustrated I had to take a phone call so I turned off the machine. And wouldn't you know it when I turned it back on Windows Vista booted back up fine again. WTF???
And here's a tip for you guys- before you plug in any USB device, make sure to save all your open files first! I have a bad habit of jotting down notes in Windows Notepad and then not saving until I needed to reboot. So I did lose some notes there which was annoying. Maybe I should just starting using Vim in Windows to replace Notepad....
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You need to change your bios back to AHCI and then you should be ok. Have fun
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