Review Alienware M17x R3 (GTX 460M, i7-2630QM) Notebook. The Vostro 460, the Alienware M17x R3 and the Alienware Aurora R3, as well as several other planned products including the XPS 17 with. My Alienware m17x recently crashed (BSOD and system recovery loop.) So I was forced to do a clean install of Windows. After that, I found out I needed to reinstall all of the computer's drivers. After hours of work, I think I was able to install all of the drivers except for one called the 'PCI' device.
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What am I seeing?
Device Manager displays an exclamation point for the SMBus controller or lists it under Other Devices.
How to fix it
Download and run the Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility so Windows* properly recognizes the SMBus controller.
| Note | SMBus is the System Management Bus used in personal computers and servers for low-speed, system management communications. A SMBus controller is integrated into most Intel® chipsets. |
M17x R3 Windows 10 Drivers
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| Intel® Chipset Device Software Update Through Microsoft Windows* Update Overwrites Existing Device Drivers Causing Loss of Functionality |