@Dan: Driver updates are never marked as critical.
(EDIT : The rest was @puki, sorry for confusion Dan)
Ah, I suppose you've installed some drivers recently that just happen to have similar/the same ID tags to the VIA IDE drivers. Either that, or you had some drivers installed all along and this new set of drivers is not configured correctly on MS Update (ie the driver-->hardware matching process is not picky enough) and MS finally got around to putting this set of drivers up (it wouldn't be the first time they put up 6 month or year old drivers). In any case, it's safe to say they weren't actually compatible with your hardware. General rule of thumb is - you should have known better that VIA IDE drivers weren't going to do their job on your non-VIA system.
(EDIT : The rest was @puki, sorry for confusion Dan)
Ah, I suppose you've installed some drivers recently that just happen to have similar/the same ID tags to the VIA IDE drivers. Either that, or you had some drivers installed all along and this new set of drivers is not configured correctly on MS Update (ie the driver-->hardware matching process is not picky enough) and MS finally got around to putting this set of drivers up (it wouldn't be the first time they put up 6 month or year old drivers). In any case, it's safe to say they weren't actually compatible with your hardware. General rule of thumb is - you should have known better that VIA IDE drivers weren't going to do their job on your non-VIA system.