Promise Technologies ??

[24c]

Today I was offered an update, on Windows Update, for Promise Technologies Inc. - Storage - Promise AHCI Compatible RAID Controller.
The 1st time I was ever offered this update. Since I have IRST controller with the latest drivers, I could not understand why I was being offered this update. A quick Google and I found someone who seemed to be in my position, but did the update and ended up with the BSOD. Needless to say, I won't be doing the update.

Anybody know how/why I ended up with this update offer?

Thanks

 

[Petey7]

Looking on Google, it seems like a lot of people with ASUS mother boards are getting the update by mistake. This is why it's recommended to have Windows Updates set to notify you before downloading or installing them. Hide the update, and forget about it.

 

[24c]

Thanks Petey7 - I do have an ASUS PT6 mobo and I will now follow my original thought, just as you suggested. Bye Bye Update.

 

[Lemur]

A good example are video cards. If you have an Nvidia chip, but another manufacturer (e.g., MSI, EVGA), you can d/l the drivers from the manufacturer's site. But Windows update may offer the Nvidia update. Like Petey said, you can d/l, but verify what it is you are installing.

 

[Airbot]

I also got this update and was perplexed.

Guess I'll just hide it.

 

[24c]

A good example are video cards. If you have an Nvidia chip, but another manufacturer (e.g., MSI, EVGA), you can d/l the drivers from the manufacturer's site. But Windows update may offer the Nvidia update. Like Petey said, you can d/l, but verify what it is you are installing.

This is what I did - makes me wise enough to listen to Petey who constantly proves his wisdom - lots of very wise people here.

 

[hoganth]

Yep, got the same update offer. Don't have promise raid controller on my Asus mobo, glad I declined it.?????
So much for "allowing" automatic windows update. "NOT"

 

[24c]

On a TechNet forum I saw someone post this issue with a non-ASUS mobo, caused all kinds of havoc.

Seems to be a big BEWARE issue.

 

[pbcopter]

I had this update offered and I have a Gigabyte board with no promise controller.

I just hid it.

 

[Petey7]

I've noticed that everyone in this thread with the problem, and everyone that mentioned their specs when I was looking before, have NVIDIA graphics cards. Maybe that has something to do with it.

 

[24c]

I saw the NVIDIA card mentioned in several posts on this issue also, may be a contributing factor. Doesn't seem to be isolated to the ASUS mobos as I originally suspected.

I know I didn't install it and I have no problems.

 

[veldthui]

I was offered this update on my Win 2008 Server R2 version and selected it. After the install I could not boot at all. As soon as it started to load BSOD and reboot with the option of Repairing. My only way out was to restore C:\ from the previous days backup (I back the whole PC up at 4pm every day onto another 600GB drive and have backups going back at least 3 months).
This was my main server with Exchange 2010 on it so it was a bit of a wake up call.

Yay for complete backups and for Windows Backup that actually works fully.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Reminds me of when everyone received the Sonic webcam updated out of no where. I was one of the few braves ones that said 'what the heck' and installed it.

 

[Cristov]

This update should be gone from Windows Update now. Looks like Intel fixed the problem. Very bad of Promise to throw this out there. Luckily it was an optional update so hopefully this only affected those people who just downloaded everything.

 

[Airbot]

Yeah, mine is no longer in the hidden update list.