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The tag 'smi' on WindowsForum.com covers discussions related to System Management Interrupt (SMI) and its impact on Windows stability. Content includes a fix for stop errors 0x133 or 0x9E that occur when a WHEA record is not acknowledged by SMI, as well as coverage of Silicon Motion's response to a Windows 11 update causing NVMe drive issues. The tag focuses on hardware-level interactions between Windows, firmware, and storage controllers, with an emphasis on troubleshooting and risk management for enterprise IT environments.
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    Silicon Motion: No Early Failures in SSDs Amid Windows 11 Update

    Silicon Motion's early reassurance — that “so far, none of our controllers are affected” by the Windows 11 update that has been making some NVMe drives disappear under sustained writes — is an encouraging datapoint, but it is provisional and incomplete: the incident remains an active...
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