SM Bus and Multimedia controller problem

[johnsonholding]

I am having an impossible time viewing my USB2.0 external hard drive
because of this error in the device manager. I went and downloaded the
infinst_autol.exe program from Intel that says it would fix the SM Bus
error - low and behold, it does not. I cannot access the drive or even
recognize the drive in the adminstration panel under disk management.
This really sucks.

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Running winXP

 

[johnsonholding]

Also there is a new Multimedia driver as well that there seems to be a
problem with. Just downloaded the driver from intel again, still not
working.

 

[johnsonholding]

One more thing, it continues to prompt me 'new hardware found'. But it
cannot find the drivers each time it runs through. I don't get this!!
There is no new hardware at all!

 

[johnsonholding]

I've reinstalled an old version of the motherboard chip set - and that
took care of the SM bus problem, but I still can't read the drive and
still have the MULTIMEDIA VIDEO problem - tried installing new NVIDIA
drivers, didn't work. This was after I uninstalled the old ones.