T60 Windows 7 Video Drive Windows update hosed

I use this old laptop for running a weather station.

It's been running Windows 7 for quite some time just fine.

I decided to do some Windows updates (I do them manually) since I'm not at the location often.

I saw an optional Update for Display driver and selected it. Big mistake.

When it boots it gets stuck on that 4 color clover, right at that the start of boot up.

If I boot into Safe Mode and remove the driver it boots fine.

Then it automatically senses the missing driver and adds it back.

Next boot fails.

The driver it installed looks old 2007.

ATI X1300

I think it's the same version on Lenovo site (tagged as for Vista).

I had disabled system restore to get the disk drive to sleep, so that's not a option.

I suspect that might be the driver I started with, I'm not sure. Maybe it was running some microsoft generic thing (which is fine by me).

I'm surprised this update just decided to come in though. I update it every few months.

Any suggestions?

 

Yes, since you know which driver update is the problem child, just go into windows update and right mouse click it to hide it. No more worries.

 

It does not show in updates.

And I'm left with no driver at all because it replaced what was there.

I could live with that, but it would be nice to get it back.

It's not automatic updates putting the bad driver back.

It's PNP putting it back even if I say delete driver it goes on the net and installs the bad one now.