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I formated a dell poweredge 400sc and installed windows 2003 now there is on exclamation mark on the device manager saying SM Bus controller. Any ideas?

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I also ran into this same situation when I loaded win2003 server. My server has an Intel motherboard, luckly I had the cd that came w/the board. I had to update the driver twice but it did work with my win2003 server, I used the winxp driver so far all is good!
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Will that update run on windows 2003 server?

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Windows 2003 Server is officially supported by the drivers according to Intel, so yes it should.
I work for a university, and we support Dell Systems from a GX110 to the new GX280, and I have run into the SM Bus Controller problems not being auto-detected from the GX270 on.  With Dell, as they tend to be very proprietary, you are best sticking with their drivers unless you run into serious issues.  Have you tried this update?  

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=PWE_PNT_P4_CEL_400_SC&os=WNET&osl=en&deviceid=4942&devlib=27&category=27&releaseid=R60270 

I do agree however, that it is the chipset definitely.  Appears to be the Intel875P chipset, but seriously, if you can, stick with what Dell pushes out.  Better off that way, good luck.  
I have to agree too + try Intel App. Accelrator avaiable at Intel for free.  #2 reserve &set IRQ + Hex address settings execlusively for troubled devices.  to start your trouble shooting.  also check for bios update addressing your problem.