nVidia SMU and Ethernet Drivers
Hello, I recently experienced something bizarre, and I was wondering if someone could tell me what happened.
After installing Windows 7 onto my computer, I was looking through all the Apple drivers that were installed with the Snow Leopard disc, and seeing if there were any I didn't need. I removed the Trackpad drivers, and I noticed an nVidia driver. "I don't need that, I have the ATI card", I though, so I removed it.
The past month, the computer has run perfectly fine. But tonight, the Action Center pops up with a message: You are missing drivers for a component of your chipset, click here to download. I do so, and it turns out to be an SMU and Ethernet driver from nVidia.
So what I'm wondering is: what the **** is an SMU, what does nVidia have to do with the ethernet port, and why hasn't this message appeared for the past four weeks while everything has been running fine?
After installing Windows 7 onto my computer, I was looking through all the Apple drivers that were installed with the Snow Leopard disc, and seeing if there were any I didn't need. I removed the Trackpad drivers, and I noticed an nVidia driver. "I don't need that, I have the ATI card", I though, so I removed it.
The past month, the computer has run perfectly fine. But tonight, the Action Center pops up with a message: You are missing drivers for a component of your chipset, click here to download. I do so, and it turns out to be an SMU and Ethernet driver from nVidia.
So what I'm wondering is: what the **** is an SMU, what does nVidia have to do with the ethernet port, and why hasn't this message appeared for the past four weeks while everything has been running fine?
iMac Core 2 Duo ATI 4670, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
