Microsoft Update offers wrong hardware drivers


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Hi,

I'm just making this thread to tell you not to trust any hardware drivers updates on Microsoft(Windows?) Update just because it's there!

Today I was checking Windows Update as usual, and noticed it have an update for "VIA-Storage Primary IDE Channel":

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I was like WTH? I don't have a single VIA chipset in my system (MSI 865PE platinum edition), with Intel ICH5 and with no raid or anything that could use a VIA thing, I always get my IDE drivers from Intel Inf and didn't ever put any VIA file on my HDD!

Then I thought I might be stupid and how would I know better than MS? :alien: so let it install and reboot, and BAAM, BSOD in the first second of Windows boot. I tried "Last known good mode" and it booted.

Anyone is having a similar update on Microsoft Update now?

My old webcam had wrong drivers forced onto it every time it would try to get them from WU, I submitted the same bug report like 3 times during the Vista beta/RC period. Microsoft simply doesn't care.

It's always been like that, since the year dot. On my work machine it lists 2003 drivers for my NVIDIA card, even though I've got the latest official NVIDIA drivers installed. The general concensus is not to ever trust it for hardware drivers updates.

on my secondary box, I had working AC97 audio drivers installed,

Vista went and updated them to a version that popped up every 5 seconds saying INCOMPATIBLE DRIVERS LOLOLOL

Nice one! ?.?

I promptly disabled automatic updates ^_^

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