I’ve received a new Dell Latitude D630 and wanted to set it up from scratch…format, OS install, drivers, apps…all one step at a time. Well, after the OS was installed (Vista Enterprise), the machine started blue screening (BSOD) and would go into a reboot. Initially, I wasn’t able to see the BSOD error as the machine was set to restart after a failure. After correcting that, I was able to see an error message which wasn’t really that helpful other than it pointed towards a hard drive. Just to be certain, I ran all hardware tests as you can see below and they have all passed.
That told me that the hardware was fine, but that something must be misconfigured and I was right. Under BIOS Setup I have made the following two modifications (based on the HW of the laptop):
1. Under “Onboard Device” section I turned off “Flash Cache Module” which enabled me to
2. change “SATA Operation” from AHCI to ATA.
It now works like a charm! 
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