Yea the older chipsets like ich8 intel seem to have this problem, it was set to hipm default but it did freeze, so that solution has worked so far on active.
If its not already in the faq it probably should be.
@drlucky wrote:
one more thing you may want to try. There are some systems that may have compatibility issues with HIPM. By default Windows 7 has HIPM enabled. Try setting HIPM to active. Setting to active actually disables HIPM. Here is a quick link on how to.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/177819-ahci-link-power-management-enable-hipm-dipm.html
