Re: New USB PCI card installed but devices still running on 1.1 not 2.

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From: Jim (j.n_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:00:17 GMT

"Trevor" <Trevor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1F56D5EB-AFF9-4AE4-A3D8-00DC311C1F9E@microsoft.com...
> I have just added a new PCI card to my PC (XP SP-2) to add more ports and
> upgrade to USB 2.0. Previously everything was running on version 1.1. In
> device mananger I now have two listings for USB controllers but all my
USB
> devices are listed under the original one and not the new USB 2.0 root hub
> device list.
>
> List 1.
> Intel USB Universal host controller
> NEC PCI to USB internal host controller (listed twice)
> Connected devices
>
> List 2.
> NEC PCI to USB enhanced host controller
> USB 2.0 root hub device
>
>
> Do I manually have to somehow update each USB peripheral device (card
> reader, printer etc.) to use USB 2 instead of 1.1?
>
> Thanks.
If your devices are USB 1.1, then to take advantage of USB 2.0 requires and
upgrade. Note that the USB hardware will throttle down to USB 1.1 if the
device cannot support USB 2.0.
Jim

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