System Management Bus Controller - Possible cause of freezing my pc

[dazza40745]

Hi

 

I have recently managed to recently reinstall windows xp on my EI systems e314. i downloaded all the graphics and sound drivers on the tech guys website (pc world technical support website) and everything is working except for one thing.

 

In my device manager list, there seems to be a problem or error with my SM bus controller, u know, a yellow exclaimation mark next to it, i click on it and it just says there are no drivers installed for this device. i have used the internet to seek help and its something to do with my chipset that i am using, now i downloaded a utility to try to determine what chipset i was using from intel but it says i don't have an intel chipset on my system.

 

any ideas, how can i fix this problem? i am trying to run football manager but every so often it freezes, i thought i was the game but it does it whilst i am surfing the net.

 

any one know what chipset i am using or how i can find out?

[danzil]

you need to find out the make of your motherboard, this should be on the pc world site also,,,,then there should be a link to a chipset driver,,,,,,what is your make of motherboard, i will see if i can find out for you.

regards

danzil

[dazza40745]

would i have to open up my tower to find out the make of my motherboard?

[danzil]

would be the quickest way..or download aida32 then install that then click on motherboard it will then give you the make....

regards

danzil

[dazza40745]

ok, this is the following details that aida32 showed me:

 

Motherboard Properties

Motherboard ID 09/05/2006-RC410-SB450-6A665FKAC-00

Motherboard Name Unknown

 

Front Side Bus Properties

Bus Type Intel NetBurst

Bus Width 64-bit

Real Clock 200 MHz (QDR)

Effective Clock 800 MHz

Bandwidth 6400 MB/s

 

on ebay, someone is selling exactly the same pc that i have, and he/she has listed the motherboard as a Foxconn P4M9007M, i believe that is correct.

does that help?

[danzil]

try this http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/downloads_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0001195

see if that helps

regards

danzil

[dazza40745]

i did that, downloaded and installed the program but nothing has really changed, still have error with sm bus controller, and now i have just discover that using that aida32 program, for some reason, it has blank screen when i click on chipset, is that anything else i can do.

[danzil]

ok no problem,

can you download everest and try that, aida may be slightly to old for your board n chipset get it from.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

give that a go,,,is the sm bus controller still a yellow exclamation mark in device manager.

regards

danzil

[dazza40745]

yeah still have a yellow exclaimation mark nxt to sm bus controller in device manager. everest says that the chipset is a ati radeon express 200, does that sound correct?

[dazza40745]

i did it, i downloaded the ati south bridge drivers from the ati website, installed them and now the yellow exclaimation mark has gone. thank you danzil.

[danzil]

nice one buddy

glad you got it sorted

regards

danzil

[dazza40745]

well, everything is installed, but now it still freezes ocassionally, what could be the problem now?

[danzil]

ok.

try running check disk on your hard drive, right click the c:\ drive then click properties then tools then error- checking.

also try defragging the hard drive, and running all anti virus scans etc.

http://www.trendmicro.com

http://www.ewido.com.

post back what you find

regards

danzil