Wednesday, July 14, 2010

"SM Bus Controller" drivers for Dell Latitude e6410, e5510, e4310 & e6510.

I recently did a fresh install of Windows XP on a Dell Latitude e6410 laptop. I installed all the drivers from Dell's website, but could not find the drivers for "SM Bus Controller". Turns out that Dell's driver installation utility is broken, so you must manually install the drivers. This will work on the e6410 as well as the e5510, e4310 & e6510.

- Go to support.dell.com
- Select your laptop model
- Select "Windows XP" as your operating system
- Expand the "Chipset" section
- Download "Intel - Driver" - "Chipset Software Installation Utility" (link)
- Run the file, it will expand files to C:\dell\drivers\R257446. (You might get lucky here and the driver will install, if not...continue with the steps below)
- Open the "Device Manager" on your computer (right-click "My Computer", select" Properties", "Hardware" tab, click "Device Manager")
- Right-click "SM Bus Controller" and click "Update Driver"
- Tell it not to contact Windows Update, then select "Install from a list of specific location"
- Select any of the .inf files from C:\dell\drivers\R257446\All
- Make your selection and the driver should install

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice...it didnt install it at first but then continued the steps and all ok.

Unknown said...

Thanks...

works like a charm!!make sure to select /all after folder name.

sean

Ron_Ellis said...

YES! YES! YES! Thank you!

Gustavo Monaco said...

Thank you!
I'll Ctrl+D you!