What is the sm bus controller, bus controller driver installation method

  
        

If your device manager has a yellow question mark in the "sm bus controller", then you can download the SM bus controller driver (with 64 bits) on this Intel motherboard for installation!

What is the sm bus controller?

The sm bus controller is called System Management Bus, which is a communication controller on the motherboard control chip. The concept of sm bus controller is proposed and applied by Intel. The sm bus controller can be used to upgrade the motherboard. Use efficiency. To put it bluntly, the sm bus controller is part of the motherboard driver. If your device manager is also a question mark, it is recommended that you reinstall the motherboard driver of your computer. If you can't find it, you can find the driver on the official website (almost all brands are available, unless you are assembling the machine, then look for the original driver CD).

The sm bus controller is generally not automatically installed automatically in XP (unlike many USB, etc. can be automatically recognized in the driver library that comes with XP), you need to install it separately.

How to install the bus controller driver?

The bus controller here refers to the SM bus controller, the "System Management Bus", which was proposed by Intel in 1995 for low-rate communication in mobile PCs and desktop PC systems. It is one of the motherboard chip technologies, mainly used to adjust the protocol and technical specifications of the data exchange between the main chips of the motherboard, as well as to control the devices on the motherboard and collect corresponding information. The SM bus controller is a communication controller on the motherboard control chip. Today we are talking about the installation of the SM bus controller driver.

The device manager without the SM bus controller looks like this:

Although this controller does not have much impact on everyday simple applications, but to ensure the computer Performance, to avoid all kinds of strange problems in the process of use, not installed is not enough.

Start the installation below, and the general driver installation can also follow this process.

First unzip the ATI SB600 South Bridge driver. The legend version is 7.8, decompress the default C:\\ATI\\********

and then open the corresponding folder, as shown below:

The red circle is the legend Controller driver file.


Open the device manager again, and then right click on the SM bus controller to update the driver---No, temporarily, next---Select to install from the list or the specified location, One step --- specific options look at the picture below:

Then determine, the next step!

SM BUS appears in the system device:

Installation is now complete. This process also applies to the installation of other drivers.

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