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Microsoft recommends to rollback the driver using the following method in Windows Device-Manager: Updating Intel SMBus Controller with wrong drivers via Windows Update causes a loss of device functionality.
#INTEL SMBUS CONTROLLER DRIVER WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#
The Intel Chipset Device software does not install device drivers for the Intel SMBus Controller. This enables the operating system to display the correct product name for that piece of hardware in Device Manager. The Intel SMBus Controller device provides the operating system with information about the device and hardware. This issue applies to the following Windows operating systems: This causes loss of functionality for some affected Intel SMBus Controller devices. When you update your computer through Windows Update, some Intel SMBus Controller device drivers are unexpectedly overwritten with Intel Chipset Device software. Within the article Loss of functionality for some Intel SMBus Controller devices after you update your system through Windows Update Microsoft wrote: Now Microsoft has confirmed a case, where Windows Update damaged systems (thanks Woody Leonhard from AskWoody for the tip). Microsoft confirms SMBus Controller damaged via WU Later I received several user reports, claiming that their drivers has damaged the system's functionality. My recommendation was not let Windows install those drivers. Several users told me, that the drivers doesn't fits their machine`s hardware parameters. After I've been alerted from my German blog readers, I investigated this case and blogged about it (see Windows 7/8.1: Optional INTEL System driver updates).
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None of those updates has been documented at all. Microsoft has started in December 2016 to release several optional INTEL driver updates via Windows Update for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.