T61 Turbo Memory Blue Screens After Hard Disk Upgrade

I have had a T61 with Turbo Memory for over a year without any issues, considering myself lucky to have avoided the blue screen problems which so many people experienced. However, all that changed when I recently upgraded the machine's hard disk from its original 160GB Hitachi to a 320GB 7200RPM Seagate. I installed Windows Vista (Ultimate x64) only to get an immediate Blue Screen Of Death (stop code 0xd1, module IaNvStor.sys) on installing the Intel Turbo Memory driver. I was using version 1.5.0.1013 downloaded directly from Intel, since that had worked well for me in the past. Upgrading to 1.7.0.1029 improved the situation a little, installing correctly but still causing intermittent 0xd1/IaNvStor.sys blue screens and some strange hangs which seemed to be hard disk related.

Since this crash is occuring in the Turbo Memory driver it seems to be related to the interaction between Turbo Memory and my new hard disk. Is Turbo Memory known to work better with some hard drives than with others?

Given that I need the space that the new hard disk offers, does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this issue other than removing the Turbo Memory card altogether? Is either of the following likely to help?

- Update the T61's BIOS (it is currently using the factory version, 7LET39WW / 1.09-1.05)
- Use the Turbo Memory drivers from Lenovo rather than direct from Intel

Thanks

 

I'm not surprised that there have been no replies - this particular blue screen seems to be quite unusual. Nonetheless, it appears Intel does acknowledge that at least one issue causing 0xd1 blue screens exists even in the newest drivers.

So whichever Turbo Memory drivers I use, I'm risking random crashes. I can't afford that! Time to get the screwdrivers out...

 

before doing that ,I'd go back to the original HDD and see if things still work.

That way you can tell if it is the new hdd or maybe something that happened concurrently, like the turbo memory going bad