Hi, a little system specs here first: I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate
32-bit on a brand new month old high end gaming PC with 500gb RAID 0 as
2x250gb drives. Before you get on me for lack of data redundancy, I also
have a 500gb external hard drive being regularly used for backups using
Ultimate's file backup and complete disk image backup too. My motherboard is
an Intel 975x based and CPU is a Q6600 Core 2 Quad. I have 2GB RAM
installed. My graphics card is a Nvidia 8800GTX.

I've been reading many stories about a problem with Apple's QuickTime and
Vista running in a RAID environment, causing disk array errors. I haven't
experienced any actual disk errors but I did uninstall QuickTime after
problems playing a MOV clip where it would stutter and hang. I actually had
to kill it via Task Manager to end the hang. I did a Google search and read
these scary stories so I uninstalled it before it could cause me to
potentially loose my array. I installed an alternate QuickTime player called
VLC media player and have no problems now playing MOV clips with that
software.

Some stories blame anything from Apple to Microsoft to Nvidia motherboards
to Intel storage manager drivers, etc. I am running Intel Storage Manager.

I guess my question is if the problem "is actually" my RAID drivers, if I do
upgrade the Intel drivers and software will it blow away my drive data and
reload Vista from scratch? I know I could do a complete restore but that
will still be a pain and would it really be worth it? I would like to
actually run QuickTime but it also seems silly to redo everything just for
one media player when every other media player works fine without having
such an issue.