What is an SM Bus Controller?

[duritz]

I installed an old canon printer in my computer today and while Windows XP was searching for the printer, it found

SM Bus Controller

I cannot find any drivers for it so it is sitting in my device manager with a yellow exclamation point since it has no drivers. XP didn't find the printer and I had to manually install it and it's working alright now.

My question is what the heck is an SM Bus Controller and where can I find drivers?

I have an ECS K7S5A motherboard, I'm guessing it's some onboard component? Other devices in my system: SB Live Mp3+, 5 port USB 2 card, Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb version, and an onboard nic.

Thanks

Josh

 

[Lord Evermore]

Well, SMBus is the system management bus, just two wires used for monitoring of the system temp and voltages and other things I believe.

I have a K7S5A version 1 revision 3, and it doesn't have an SMBus controller being detected. Do you know what version your board is? The manuals for the K7S5A on ECS's site don't mention it for this board. I can't imagine why XP is detecting this, it doesn't have any built-in monitoring functions.

 

[duritz]

It is version 3.1

If I delete it, it never comes back, unless I try to search for a new printer then it pops up... WTF?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Perhaps something they changed in the version 3 boards that the version 1's don't have. Email them and ask. Or check the forums at ocworkbench.com, they have a LOT of people working with the K7S5A in the ECS forums.