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What is SMBUS and why is it disabled in my BIOS?

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Mar 15, 20267223 views
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My motherboard is an HP P4SD, and in the BIOS I found in the Security tab. There is also something like "Device security." There's a list and the value of is "Hidden." That means that no Operating System will know about it (the device is disabled). What is and why is it disabled? How can I use this…

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SMBUS

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The SMBus is the "System Management Bus". It's an Intel-defined chipset feature for reporting things like fan speeds, motherboard temperatures, serial/model numbers, etc., to the OS. Often there will be a monitoring utility provided by the motherboa…

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