[Simulated]

Hi, I have a custom computer that my husband and I built. I have an EVGA nForce 780i SLI Motherboard. In the device manager, there is a yellow question mark for the SM Bus Controller. Everywhere I read, you have to reinstall the chip-set drivers. The last time I did that, I had to also format the hard drive and reinstall windows xp as well. I don't want to do that again. I have lots of programs that I use daily, and don't want to have to reinstall everything and reconfigure all my programs to my preferences. My computer runs fine otherwise.

Is there anything I can do to get it working without having to format and reinstall my OS and all my programs?

[Mumbodog]

If the PC works fine, ignore that entry. Solved.


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[techkid]

Something must have gone seriously wrong when you last installed the chipset drivers. Can you give us a bit of a background story?

Besides advising to reinstall the chipset drivers, there's not much else we can say. But yeah, like Mumbodog says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[Simulated]

Well a few months ago I had to reinstall windows XP due to an error that the windows repair didn't solve. But as Mumbodog said, I won't worry about it since my pc runs fine. In the future, in an event that I do need to reinstall, I'll reinstall the chip-set at that point. Thanks to the both of you for your help.

[Mumbodog]

FYI, after a clean install the chipset driver should be installed first, before any other drivers. Reboot the PC after each is installed.

Chipset
Video
Sound
Network
the rest


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