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Question:

What is the SMBus ?

 - aW


	:ASUS disable the SMBus on their new mother boards and have no BIOS entry
	:to enable it, but it can be enabled from the PCI config regs. Without
	:it you can not easily read the voltages, temperatures and Fan speeds.