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The SM Bus Controller (System Management Bus) is a critical component on your motherboard designed to handle communication for low-speed system management tasks, such as monitoring temperature and voltage. On Windows 7 64-bit systems, a missing or yellow-exclamation-marked "SM Bus Controller" in Device Manager typically indicates that the chipset drivers are not installed. Understanding the SM Bus Controller sm bus controller driver windows 7 64 bit