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Uninstalling NVIDIA IDE SW drivers

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Quadriflax

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This might be a dumb question, but how do I uninstall the Nvidia IDE SW drivers? I just built my new rig, updated all the drivers, and am experiencing a BSOD everytime I put a CD with autorun into the drive. I know I installed the SW drivers and I've read that this could be the problem. Everything else seems to be okay. So how do I make sure these drivers are not on my system? Thanks.
 
Log on as an Admin-class user, find the IDE/ATA controller in Device Manager, double-click it, go to the Driver tab, and click Update Driver.

Now tell it Advanced (select driver from a list). When the next panel appears, tell it Don't Search, then uncheck the checkbox for Show Compatible Hardware, and use the Standard Dual-Channel PCI IDE Controller driver. That should do it.
 
OK, I think they're uninstalled. I went to Add/Remove programs and removed the IDE drivers from there and everything listed in the device manager is a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (under IDE ATA/ATAPI controller). I'm still having problems with it. The specific error I'm getting is:

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

STOP 0x0000009c (0c00000004, 0x80545FF0, 0xB2000000, 0X00070F0F)

I had my motherboard and processor tested before they sent them out to me by Monarch Computer, so I'm thinking everything is okay with them. I'm currently running:

AMD64 3200+ Venice
MSI Neo4-F board
2x512 MB Kingston ValueRAM
Antec TruePower 430W PSU
Hitachi 200GB HD
MSI 6600GT video card

Everything seems to be running fine up until I stick a CD into the drive, then I get the above message. This leads me to believe the CD drive is at fault. Yet when I first set up the machine everything installed fine. It wasn't until after I updated some drivers that everything seems to have gone to hell. Any other ideas what this might be? I might just have to reinstall Windows to make sure the drivers are gone, then not allow the SW IDE drivers to ever get on in the first place.

I could be the drive too, I suppose. But since it didn't have any problems in the last machine it was installed in, nor did it have any problems installing Windows and running some driver updates from CDs, I'm inclined to think there's a driver issue here. But any help is appreciated.
 
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