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USB 2.0 question
I've just bought a new motherboard (ASUS A7N8X-X).
It has USB 2.0 ports. I'm running WinME. I've got a hard-drive-type MP3 player. If the USB 2.0 ports were working correctly, should I expect file transfer to be a lot quicker than it was with USB 1.1? Is it likely that my USB 2.0 ports are working as USB 1.1 because I'm using WinME? There are green question marks next to the two Standard OpenHCI USB Host Controllers in device manager. I have installed the drivers supplied with the motherboard and downloaded all the available nVidia and ASUS drivers. Phileas |
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On Sat, 15 May 2004 09:36:45 GMT, "Phileas" wrote:
I've just bought a new motherboard (ASUS A7N8X-X). It has USB 2.0 ports. I'm running WinME. I've got a hard-drive-type MP3 player. If the USB 2.0 ports were working correctly, should I expect file transfer to be a lot quicker than it was with USB 1.1? Only if the MP3 player supports USB2 and the port-pair you're conecting it to doesn't have any other USB1 devices plugged in which will drop speed of both ports to USB1. Is it likely that my USB 2.0 ports are working as USB 1.1 because I'm using WinME? Likely? Depends on if you installed the driver. WinME needs a driver for USB2. There are green question marks next to the two Standard OpenHCI USB Host Controllers in device manager. Well that does sound suspicious. Do the properties for those make any mention of the issue? I have installed the drivers supplied with the motherboard and downloaded all the available nVidia and ASUS drivers. Phileas Just to clarify, you tried this driver? http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/usb20/usb20_98me.zip |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Sat, 15 May 2004 09:36:45 GMT, "Phileas" wrote: I've just bought a new motherboard (ASUS A7N8X-X). It has USB 2.0 ports. I'm running WinME. I've got a hard-drive-type MP3 player. If the USB 2.0 ports were working correctly, should I expect file transfer to be a lot quicker than it was with USB 1.1? Only if the MP3 player supports USB2 and the port-pair you're conecting it to doesn't have any other USB1 devices plugged in which will drop speed of both ports to USB1. Is it likely that my USB 2.0 ports are working as USB 1.1 because I'm using WinME? Likely? Depends on if you installed the driver. WinME needs a driver for USB2. There are green question marks next to the two Standard OpenHCI USB Host Controllers in device manager. Well that does sound suspicious. Do the properties for those make any mention of the issue? I have installed the drivers supplied with the motherboard and downloaded all the available nVidia and ASUS drivers. Phileas Just to clarify, you tried this driver? http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/usb20/usb20_98me.zip This has the same name as the driver file supplied with the motherboard. Strange - I didn't manage to find that on the ASUS website. I tried it anyway just in case it made a difference - it doesn't. Still got the green question marks. The device status reads: This device is working properly. If some features of this device are not working, you may need to update the drivers for this device. I plugged the MP3 player (which definitely supports USB 2.0) into a different USB port pair - still seems as slow as before. Phileas |
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Phileas wrote:
There are green question marks next to the two Standard OpenHCI USB Host Controllers in device manager. I have installed the drivers supplied with the motherboard and downloaded all the available nVidia and ASUS drivers. The drivers didn't install right. I ran into this with a nvidia based board, USB2.0 drivers and win98SE. Go into the device manager, go to the properties of those devices, I bet it will say something about driver not installed or something to that effect. Click: reinstall or update driver, check let windows find best driver, uncheck all the drive locations in the next window and click next. Then it will find the drivers in C:\windows and let it install them. At least that's what I had to do to get the drivers to install. -- Stacey |
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"Stacey" wrote in message ... Phileas wrote: The drivers didn't install right. I ran into this with a nvidia based board, USB2.0 drivers and win98SE. Go into the device manager, go to the properties of those devices, I bet it will say something about driver not installed or something to that effect. Click: reinstall or update driver, check let windows find best driver, uncheck all the drive locations in the next window and click next. Then it will find the drivers in C:\windows and let it install them. At least that's what I had to do to get the drivers to install. -- I've tried to repeat this but only ended up installing drivers from my WinME disk. I then re-installed the USB2.0 drivers from the motherboard disc and at least I've got rid of the green question marks. Still slow file transfer though. Maybe my (USB2.0, hard-disk-type) MP3 player is just slow to write to. Phileas |
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On Sat, 15 May 2004 18:22:28 GMT As another one bit the dust "Phileas"
wrote : "Stacey" wrote in message ... Phileas wrote: The drivers didn't install right. I ran into this with a nvidia based board, USB2.0 drivers and win98SE. Go into the device manager, go to the properties of those devices, I bet it will say something about driver not installed or something to that effect. Click: reinstall or update driver, check let windows find best driver, uncheck all the drive locations in the next window and click next. Then it will find the drivers in C:\windows and let it install them. At least that's what I had to do to get the drivers to install. -- I've tried to repeat this but only ended up installing drivers from my WinME disk. I then re-installed the USB2.0 drivers from the motherboard disc and at least I've got rid of the green question marks. Still slow file transfer though. Maybe my (USB2.0, hard-disk-type) MP3 player is just slow to write to. Phileas Try here, http://www.usbman.com/Troubleshooter%20General.htm HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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Phileas wrote:
"Stacey" wrote in message ... Phileas wrote: The drivers didn't install right. I ran into this with a nvidia based board, USB2.0 drivers and win98SE. Go into the device manager, go to the properties of those devices, I bet it will say something about driver not installed or something to that effect. Click: reinstall or update driver, check let windows find best driver, uncheck all the drive locations in the next window and click next. Then it will find the drivers in C:\windows and let it install them. At least that's what I had to do to get the drivers to install. -- I've tried to repeat this but only ended up installing drivers from my WinME disk. I then re-installed the USB2.0 drivers from the motherboard disc and at least I've got rid of the green question marks. Now look at the driver info and see who's is installed. If it isn't the newer ones, reinstall drivers but this time point them to the folder on the CD where the USB2.0 drivers are located. Sometimes windows tries to fight you this way installing drivers! I've even had to "pick all hardware" and ignore the "this driver may not work" warnings to get drivers installed. -- Stacey |
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"Stacey" wrote in message ... Phileas wrote: Now look at the driver info and see who's is installed. If it isn't the newer ones, reinstall drivers but this time point them to the folder on the CD where the USB2.0 drivers are located. Sometimes windows tries to fight you this way installing drivers! I've even had to "pick all hardware" and ignore the "this driver may not work" warnings to get drivers installed. -- OK, I fixed it. I clicked on "show a list of drivers in a specific location" and there was the Nvidia driver in the list. It's so annoying when Windows insists that "the best driver for this device is already installed"! Phileas |
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Phileas wrote:
"Stacey" wrote in message ... Phileas wrote: Now look at the driver info and see who's is installed. If it isn't the newer ones, reinstall drivers but this time point them to the folder on the CD where the USB2.0 drivers are located. Sometimes windows tries to fight you this way installing drivers! I've even had to "pick all hardware" and ignore the "this driver may not work" warnings to get drivers installed. -- OK, I fixed it. I clicked on "show a list of drivers in a specific location" and there was the Nvidia driver in the list. It's so annoying when Windows insists that "the best driver for this device is already installed"! Glad this worked. Win98 fought me trying to install the right ones too. -- Stacey |
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