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Well you can try it. I have one other case where Updates pushes through a buggy Nvidia driver, so I hid it. Win7 Updates errors are one in a million, though, so it's rare anomaly.
If that doesn't resolve your freezes then I'd follow Steve's procedure to unRAID and install to one HD. RAID0 is not even redundant which is supposedly the R in RAID.
Windows 7 does not like RAID. We see nothing but problems here with RAID from an installer's and performance point of view. You'd think we would see successes occasionally, but I can't remember any.
The Dell technician came in today and I'm getting a motherboard replacement. Turns out I/O is acting weird and when it gets to 5MB or over, the machine slows to a crawl it almost looks like it's crippled. It's scheduled for this Wednesday, two days from now. Will update.
The motherboard just got replaced and I'm already using the new one. Will update.
Looks already solved. The I/O would refuse to go over 2MB and when it did, the computer slowed down to a crawl it seemed it was a Pentium II or something. Just tested, seems OK now, plus it's faster and I don't get the slowdowns I used to get. Programs start faster, load faster, I experience less FPS drops, they crash less, etc. etc.
Probably solved, will mark as so in a few days in case it doesn't freeze anymore :)
Now this was unexpected. It just froze with the new motherboard. I'm with Dell support on the phone.
Just wanted to update this so you guys know I didn't abandon this, I'm just trying to solve the final problems with Dell.