Always prompted to update NVIDIA RAID Drivers

My boot partition is RAID 5 array on Gigabyte MB with NVIDIA 590 SLI chipset.
OS is Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
Everytime I boot computer it says Windows has detected new hardware and
tries to install new RAID drivers that computer found via Windows Update.
This hgas been happening for six weeks.

I am given three choices by Vista prompt. I can install drivers, wait til
next bootup or don't install. If I select don't install or install, either
choice will result in installation program trying to run. Any attempt at
installing driver whether from NVIDIA, Windows Update or MB site will fail. I
get BSOD upon reboot. Only Last Know Good will get machine running again.
Manually selecting update of drivers also fails.

I think the issue is that drivers are in use and therefore can't be updated.

I tried booting off Vista DVD and Repairing but it won't overwrite existing
drivers with updated ones. It finds no errors.

I would like to make the driver update prompt go away. Is there Registry
hack to stop this message for my RAID driver without killing hardware detect
or a method to successfully update the driver that will cause prompts to stop.

Interesting, i have had the exact same problem ever since i tried to install
the leaked 992 Raid drivers about a month ago. Now all i get is it asking
to update the drivers on every boot (To the same version as already
installed no less) regardless of what driver version i try. I get BSOD on
some of the drivers, and just loop of trying to install others. Really
bloody annoying.

I'm using an Asus board with 590 SLI chipset.

Trac

"william" <william@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news503027B-F786-4355-A0D8-FCB8C5B470AA@microsoft.com...

> My boot partition is RAID 5 array on Gigabyte MB with NVIDIA 590 SLI
> chipset.
> OS is Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
> Everytime I boot computer it says Windows has detected new hardware and
> tries to install new RAID drivers that computer found via Windows Update.
> This hgas been happening for six weeks.
>
> I am given three choices by Vista prompt. I can install drivers, wait til
> next bootup or don't install. If I select don't install or install, either
> choice will result in installation program trying to run. Any attempt at
> installing driver whether from NVIDIA, Windows Update or MB site will
> fail. I
> get BSOD upon reboot. Only Last Know Good will get machine running again.
> Manually selecting update of drivers also fails.
>
> I think the issue is that drivers are in use and therefore can't be
> updated.
>
> I tried booting off Vista DVD and Repairing but it won't overwrite
> existing
> drivers with updated ones. It finds no errors.
>
> I would like to make the driver update prompt go away. Is there Registry
> hack to stop this message for my RAID driver without killing hardware
> detect
> or a method to successfully update the driver that will cause prompts to
> stop.

Additional information that might be helpful. The existing RAID drivers are
in Windows/system32 folder bit my OS is 64-bit. The .inf file for the
installed drivers is named nvraid.inf but the update driver inf file is
nvrd64.inf Could this result in two different drivers trying to install for
the same device?

I again tried a manual update of RAID driver via Device Manager and the
click in RAID and tell it to automatically update driver (yes I have tried
manually and then gone to NVIDIA sataraid driver folder on my PC, install
failed); the update found and downloaded driver from Internet. It said driver
dated 7/2/07 was installed successfully. Upon restart, I got BSOD. Then I
booted from Vista DVD and tried repair. Repair found nothing to fix, then
tried to get me to used restore point. By this time repair is experiencing
errors. I rebooted and fixed system via Last Known Good.