SM Bus Controller?

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TCK

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A few months ago I was getting random crashes with the BSoD and I thought it was my ram
and took out one of the sticks and it seemed to stop crashing. I bought another 2gb of ram installed it and everything was fine still. A month or so ago I would occasionally get a BSoD crash like once a week. Today I had 2 in a row and last week I had 2 in a row, I think they are slowly getting worse. I did a little research and when to my Device Manager and saw that the SM Bus Conroller had a warning sign next to it. Could that be an issue causing this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Operating System : Windows Vista Ultimate
Intel E6850
GeForce 8800GTS (G92)
2gb Corsair XMS 1gb ballistiX
1 70gb Raptor(Running Just OS) | 1 120gb Maxtor(Running all programs)
GIGABYTE GA-EG45M-DS2H LGA 775 Intel G45 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard (or one very similar)(Will DL program to determine what exactly this mobo is)
 
Download the latest chipset drivers from Gigabyte's website and see if they resolve the problem.
 
Alright thanks. will do. Is there any specific ones or are they all generic?
 
Is there a program to determine the exact mother board I am using, I forget the exact model name etc.

And I remember reformatting and my friend used Vista since that's all he had and he didn't use a driver CD because he said Vista detects all generic drivers or something, will I be able to update the Chipset even though we did it that way?
 
Alright it's downloading. Do I have to uninstall anything or just install it and restart?
 
How long does it take, it keeps loading the same Express Root Port 6
 
Just had to restart and restarted the install of the Chipset Drivers and everything went well, lets hope no more crashes will occur.
 
Well it was going fine until last night around midnight and just went to bed..woke up and decided to run updates for Vista, 43 updates were installed. Could the lack of updates be causing random blue screens in Windows Vista Ultimate?
 
Just happend again.. FUCK!

When I go to "Windows Can Search To See What Caused The Error" or w.e it says after a crash in vista...
it says this

This problem was caused by a missing driver for Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (rtlh86.sys, rtlh64.sys), which was created by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

And I know it's not my harddrive because when it happend before I bought a new one, installed a fresh copy of windows on it and I still had the problem. I'm beginning to think it's either my motherboard or the other stick of ballistiX ram.
 
Could faulty ram cause random blue screens of death that would happen occasionally than start to happen more frequently until it's dead?
 
TCK said:
Could faulty ram cause random blue screens of death that would happen occasionally than start to happen more frequently until it's dead?
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yes

Wait a minute, WTF? Do you have Crucial or Corsair RAM? Corsair does not make Ballistix RAM but Crucial does.
 
I had 2 GB of Crucial BallistiX, took 1 gb out because someone said that could be the problem.
It stopped crashing for a while now a few weeks ago it started again crashing.. like once a week. Lately it would be like 2 crashes every few hours. So I bought 2 GB of like a few months ago and I think the other gb of crucial is dieing and causing my pc to crash, could that be the reason?
 
Download Memtest+ v2.10 or whatever the latest version is, unzip it, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP install CD. Let Memtest+ run for at least three hours on each stick of RAM separately as well as test the RAM together. Go for a full 24 hours if you want to be completely sure that the RAM is not a problem. If you start seeing errors, than your RAM is defective or you have incorrect settings for the RAM.
 
Can I run memtest while I'm on my pc? or does my pc have to be idol?
 
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