LazyBum Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 I have a 250 GB Hitachi drive as a storage drive, my OS and apps are on my RAID-0 Raptor setup. Every time I try and access the drive, I get a BSOD with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION. I'm pretty sure I've heard people mentioning things about the Nvidia drivers causing problems. My question is this: Which drivers should I get rid of, and what to replace them with? I'm currently using the 6.53 Nforce drivers with everything installed except the sound drivers, which I don't use since I'm using my Audigy 2ZS. I'm almost positive that the drivers are the problem, but I don't know which ones I should replace. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viturbio Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Hello, i have exactly the same problem, i've cheked the HD in another PC and its fine, mines is seagate 60GB. Saluts Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewski Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 if you remove the nVidia IDE drivers, windoze will just use the standard M$oft stuff. that should work fine . . . you just won't get that "eject hardware" icon in your system tray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewski Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 oh, and to remove it, just go to add/remove programs, click on nVidia drivers and it will give a window with "remove all" or "remove selected". check the radio button next to "remove selected" and then check off the IDE. remove and reboot. done. some folks like to run a driver cleaner to make sure the uninstall didn't leave anything behind. i'm not that neat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyBum Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Thanks, I'll try that. I had it working before, must have installed the Nvidia drivers over the M$ ones when I updated my Nforce package. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viturbio Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 thnx for de info drewski Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic-k20 Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 i never install the nvdia ide drivers - caused a lot of problems - so just stick with the xp drivers for a stress free setup Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyBum Posted April 22, 2005 Posted April 22, 2005 Well, there is no option to remove the SW IDE driver from Add/Remove programs. I couldn't get a driver change to stick from Device Manager either. So I ended up doing a clean XP install, which I was planning anyway, just not so soon. The full story of my bonehead journey is in the off-topic section. System runs great now, the smoothest it's ever been. Gotta love a clean install. Finally got this baby to break 27K in 3dMark 01 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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