The topic says it all, well not all of it, but enough for someone out there to understand my frustration. I'm sure you guys need more info than I will be able to post here to start, but let me know what you need and I will find it for you, I need to find a solution to this problem, or I'm going to punch a baby. Here's the stop message from my BSOD:
STOP: 0X000000F4 (0X00000003, 0X89FE2DA0, 0X89FE2F14, 0X8060566E)
Any ideas how I can fix?
Don't worry I'm not actually going to punch any babies, let me know what other information I can provide that would be useful.
Thanks,
Paul

On an unrelated note, what is Windows 7? A vista replacement?
And another unrelated note, is there a good registry cleaner program out there, I'm leery of anything that pokes around my registry though I don't know enough about it to do the cleaning myself.

Try THIS if using XP etc.and if situation applies.

Otherwise do a Microsoft search at that page top,quoting the stop no's.

Yes-there is no master/slave with SATA-the active disk is automatically the equivalent of a master.
SATA 1 slot is fine.
So looks like that link wont help!

These type of BSOD are difficult-suggest you search MS support.

Presumably BIOS is recognizing the main drive and the SATA Raid/AHCI mode is disabled,and you have SATA drivers installed.

Thats exactly the same as the link I gave-anyway good luck!

hi, i'm not sure if this would help because i see that you're talking about the hard drives, but this solved my BSOD a couple of months ago (which also frustrated me for so long because i didn't know where to start), have you tried playing around with your hardware? i had 2 RAM cards and i tried unplugging 1 and testing if my laptop BSOD'd, which it didn't after a couple of tests.

Is the CPU under load when the BSOD happens? If so ensure the CPU cooler isn't clogged. Speedfan is a good utility for keeping an eye on temps. Realtemp is another good one.