Vista - BSOD with all modes after driver update

I updated my nVidia nforce driver (from nVidia's site). I've done this a
couple of time since Vista keeps failing to install the Vista Update. Today
I reloaded the nVidia driver for the eintire mother board, and now I get BSOD
in all of the boot modes and am unable to get the system to bood from the
Vista disk. The system reboots after the BSOD to fast to read the error
message (and since I can't get it to start vista, the fixes I've seen so far
won't work to stop the auto-reboot). In the three safe modes, the last
driver(?) I see before BSOD is CRCDISK.SYS. Is there something I can do to
fix this such that I don't have to wipe my RAID5 set-up and re-install?

My system is: ASUS Striker Extreme, 2x 8800GT in SLI, 3x 500Gb WD drives in
RAID5, Intel 6850, ASUS DVD/CD, ... using VISTA Ultimate

When you 1st boot and right after the BIOS screen do you get the option for
RAID setup??
peter

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"trumpet-mmb" <trumpetmmb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news2F8F4C5-7086-48BF-92DA-8EDF53AE063B@xxxxxx

"trumpet-mmb" <trumpetmmb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news2F8F4C5-7086-48BF-92DA-8EDF53AE063B@xxxxxxIn Vista, you can run a system restore for outside windows. Boot your
original install disc and choose 'repair your computer' rather than
'install'. Click next a few times and you should get to some options,
including system restore.

Try this, if it doesn't work then write back with details of what happened.

nice system btw

-jeepers

Thanks to both of you.

Yes, I can get to MediaShield, and thus can go RAID setup. Status is
healthy and the the RAID5 array says "Boot is Yes"

Is there a "key" to boot from the original install disk? I tried putting in
my VISTA-Ultimate disk, but the BSOD appeared before the disk was read. BTW,
I have an OEM copy of Vista, does that matter (it is a legal copy)?

David

Basically, I get through the BIOS(?) screen then get BSOD before getting any
of the DVD/CD drives to read.

"Jeepers Creepers" wrote:

"trumpet-mmb" <trumpetmmb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9CCA2BF4-BD9C-4C0E-816F-20C130BCFA7F@xxxxxxThe blue screen is a windows error, which means the hard drive is booting
rather than the vista disc. There should be 'boot device priority' or '1st
boot device', so you can set your cd drive to be the 1st device checked. I
believe an oem disc will have system restore just the same, just be ready to
'press any key' when it tells you to.

-Jeepers

Thanks for the help (I just finished transferring my photo from my old PC and
was not looking forward to redoing that, 10k-ish photos).

One last question, I keep getting NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller and 2x
NVIDIA nForce RAID Device driver updates which need a reboot, however, this
never works and the next time I boot up, they try to install again with yet
another reboot. I have updated to the latest drivers directly from NVIDIA
and "hidden" these updates, but it keeps loopoing (since you solved my last
problem in 2 postings), any suggestions?

"Jeepers Creepers" wrote:

"trumpet-mmb" <trumpetmmb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:37AC279A-94B2-42EE-819E-BC7B195441E5@xxxxxxHi, glad last issue solved.
Not sure on this, one, maybe turn off auto updates for a bit from control
panel, or system restore back further, to before the auto update had started
installing...
Good luck,

-jeepers