sm bus controller HELP!!

[JERKSTORE]

I have a hp a6750f. It has Vista on it. I partition the drive and installed XP pro on it SP3. It is now dual boot. In XP everything works except the SM Bus Controller has a yellow ?!. Can anyone please help me out with the drivers I need to install to get this functioning properly? Also, I am no computer guru by any means.

Thanks in advance,
jeff

Motherboard description	Motherboard manufacturer's name: MSI MS-7548 HP/Compaq name: Aspen-GL8E
CPU/Processor	Socket AM2+ supports AM2, AM2+ processors Memory support is limited to DDR2 modules Supports the following processors: AMD Phenom Quad-Core 9xxx series (AM2+) AMD Phenom Triple-Core 8xxx series (AM2+) Athlon X2 BE-2xxx (AM2) Athlon 64 X2 with Dual Core technology
Front-side bus (FSB) (Processor Dependent)	Up to 5200MT/s (5.2 GT/s) when using compatible AM2+ or AM3 processor
Chipset	AMD 780G
BIOS features	Keyboard combination used to enter BIOS: F10 System BIOS core brand: Award
Form factor	Micro-ATX: 9.6 in x 9.6 in
Memory	Dual channel memory architecture Four DDR2 SO-DIMM (240-pin) sockets Supported DIMM types: PC2-6400 (800 MHz) PC2-5300 (667 MHz) Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered Supports 4GB DDR2 DIMMs Supports up to 16 GB on 64-bit PCs Supports up to 4 GB* on 32-bit PCs NOTE: *Actual available memory may be less
Expansion slots	One PCI Express x16 graphics (for a graphics card) Three PCI Express x1 (for cards such as network, sound, tv-tuner)
Video graphics	Integrated graphics using ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 (Supports DirectX® 10) Supports concurrent use of dual displays connected to onboard DVI-D and VGA connectors. Also supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards as independent graphics adapters.* NOTE: *Either integrated graphics or a discrete graphics card are usable at one time; they are not usable concurrently..
Serial ATA	Six SATA connectors: Supports 1 SATA-150 or SATA-300 disk drive on each SATA connector Speed up to 3.0Gb/sec or 1.5Gb/sec, complying with SATA 2.0 and SATA 1.0 specifications NOTE: The faster rate of 3.0Gb/sec requires that both the hard drive and the motherboard support it. If one or the other does not support 3.0 Gb/sec, the system negotiates down to the slower 1.5 Gb/sec.
RAID	Ready to use. Starting Spring09, CTO models in North America may be configured for: RAID pass-through RAID 0 RAID 1 For all other regions, this motherboard ships in RAID Pass-Through mode. This means it is ready to be configured for RAID 0 or RAID 1. RAID modes supported: RAID 0 RAID 1

[PrairieDawg]

Have you installed all drivers? The bus drivers are usually installed with the motherboard/chipset drivers.

[JERKSTORE]

I guess I haven't. The computer is working, but I have the ?! by the serial bus controller.
HP's site only has the driver pack for Vista. I actually don't know what drivers to install, as I have been looking for them for about a week. I'm not all that bright.
I don't know where to find them.

[PrairieDawg]

Looks like your MSI board was built specific to HP and as you say there is no support for XP .... you may have a problem. Try here: MSI -- MICRO-STAR INT'L CO., LTD. and see if the board is recognized by the automated system ... if not maybe try the manual method and see if any of the listed board drivers with 780 chipset will install and work correctly. You may also be able to find something directly from AMD (who is the company that made the chipset itself) although I just had a quick look and no luck.

[JERKSTORE]

didn't work. got an error. Thanks for helping though..

[iamcie]

PrairieDawg was right on. I am having a similar issue attempting to install sever 2008 on an HP a6750f. During the install the setup program cannot see any drives and provides an error...

A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a floppy disk,
CD, DVD, or USB flash Drive, please insert it now.
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD Drive, you can safely remove it for this step."

To get around this go to the link in PrairieDawgs post and select your mainboard which is a AMD Platform/Socket AM2+/AMD/AMD 780/K9A2VM-FIH from there select the driver tab and then download the ATI SB700 RAID Driver for Vista x64. Place it on a USB and direct the setup program to look for the driver in the folder you saved it to.

Also for Jerkstores issue they have a utility called AMDAway on the download page that should take care of the yellow bang.

Thanks PDawg!

[JERKSTORE]

The automatic msi didn't work for me. I did manage to use live update3 on their site. that got rid of the smbus error. Now the only problem I have is that my computer won't recognize my printer or iphone. (no plug and play devices). It will recognize external hard drives though. on Vista everything works fine...I am having the problems on XP Pro.

[PrairieDawg]

Your printer problem is probably driver related as well. Have you installed the correct drivers for it? I have no experience with iphone but guessing there may be an XP driver for it as well. Just because Vista recognizes something "out of the box" does not mean XP will.

[JERKSTORE]

Ya..I downloaded the exact setup file from lexmark. It is one that you plug your printer in and the exe file installs the printer. Didn't work.
I then tried to manually install the drivers from file. Didn't work.

[heliosys]

Go to ati website, download ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 drivers. Sm bus controller is part of that package.