I just followed the instructions in HDDERASE 3.3 and used option 1 for a secure erase. After that I setup RAID 0. Then, before installing Vista I created a 128KB starting off set (Diskpart - create partition primary align=128). Once the Vista install was done I immediately installed the Intel chipset drivers, rebooted, shut down system and power. Next, the Intel Matrix driver, reboot, shutdown and power off.

Finally, I installed the video driver so I could properly test the sleep feature.

I don't know whether shutting down had any effect. I just did it out of precaution to ensure myself that all settings were saved. I also followed the same steps with the offset because it worked last time.