Asus P5E/ Rampage Formula

Nebulous

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• Nov 22, 2008

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Hey guyz, need help here. Just reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64 on my board and in device manage I have no drivers for the SM Bus Controller on my board.

I did all the updates including the chipset drivers and still I can't seem to find the drivers for the controller. I could sure use the help with this as it's got me confused as heck.

No I don't have the mobo disk.

 

glock19owner

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• Nov 22, 2008

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Uninstall the SMB in the device manager...then rescan for new hardware...should reinstall correctly

 

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• Nov 22, 2008

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glock19owner said:

Uninstall the SMB in the device manager...then rescan for new hardware...should reinstall correctly

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I did this a few times, then like on the 5th try it finally worked. Hmm I wonder why it gave me so much trouble?

Thx glock

 

glock19owner

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• Nov 22, 2008

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I have no idea...had to do that a few time both with the extreme and formula...

 

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• Nov 22, 2008

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Neb, that is the problem with flashing a X38 with a X48 bios, Windows still sees it as a X38 chipset although the bios is that of a X48, use the universal X38/X48 Intel chipset update install file you can get straight from the Intel sight, if you use either the P5E or Rampage chipset drivers from Asus it will not load correctly.

 

Rattle

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• Nov 22, 2008

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I found alot of the intel chipset driver updates have been weird, the only one that gives me no trouble is the one from may 07 usually.

 

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• Nov 22, 2008

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Yeah. I found that no matter which one I used from Asus's site, it doesn't wanna kick in. I used the one from Intel's site and tho it took a few tries/versions, I finally got it.

Funny with XP32/64 it was a piece of cake. Using Vista Ultimate 64 it was my first pita . Live and learn I guess.

Thx guyz.

 

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• Nov 23, 2008

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I never had problems with installing chipset drivers, and I run vista x64 ultimate . But, use the ones from the intel site, those are more up to date than the asus ones.