Re: High speed device plugged into non-high speed port

From: James Jones (jamesjones_at_124.com)
Date: 12/04/04


Date: 4 Dec 2004 07:26:18 -0800

Hi RC, well, it's get curioser and curioser!
I previously had my four external hard drives plugged into the four
motherboard's USB 2.0 ports, and the following plugged into the NEC
USB cards' ports: Laser printer, colour printer, external DVD writer,
digital camera, and MP3 player.
The external DVD writer often came up with the 'high speed device'
message, and the MP3 player too, but now the DVD writer is working at
USB 2.0 speed, so I thought I'd plug the external hard drives into the
NEC cards' ports, and they are also working at USB 2.0! The only
devices that come up with the message now are my two MP3 players - one
is a 'Neo' MP3 player that I bought from Ebay, and is definitely USB
2.0, and the other is a Netac iMuz. Both of these still bring up the
'high speed into non-high speed' message, even when I plug them into
the motherboard's USB ports.
So I think it's something very odd to do with the MP3 players' USB
compatibility - I'm going to check the CD that came with each of them
to see if there are any drivers on there, but they both said they
didn't need drivers for XP.
As I type I'm transferring 10 gigs of files from one of the external
hard drives to another, using the NEC cards ports, and it's only
taking about six minutes to do this, so the cards are definitely
working okay now. I checked what drivers were installed, and they are
the same as the ones you listed, so that parts all okay too now.
(Perhaps I couldn't install the ones that came on the driver CD with
the NEC cards any more because the SP2 ones had taken precedence over
them, and were better matches, according to XP?)
If it's only the MP3 players that are causing this problem, it's not
worth me worrying about it any more, as I only transfer a few files a
week, if that.



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