Re: Are these up-to-date USB drivers?
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:33:51 -0000
Identify the hardware on your machine using Everest and then
go to manufacturers web sites for later software and drivers.
Start with your motherboard and BIOS.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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"microman" <microman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gerry, none of these links will actually identify the CORRECT USB
driver
versions. And really that's the point I'm making - Microsoft didn't
provide
good USB 2.0 drivers in a seamless manner, when they first came out
and,
according to what I've read, some early versions didn't work at all
well.
Clearly, I've got SOME Enhanced USB drivers in my set but the point is
'Are
the particular versions I've got the most up-to-date?'. The only way
of
confirming that is to compare the version nos. and dates with those of
other
users who are successfully using theirs.
Microsoft seem to have gone out of their way to avoid publishing the
version
nos. and dates of the most reliable USB drivers and I can't really
understand
that. There wouldn't be all these problems with USB 2.0 if they just
published details of the reliable ones and from where you could
download them.
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575/en-us
This freeware programme is excellent for getting information
about your computer hardware:
Everest Home Edition (freeware)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
Tip: To copy select Report, Quick Report, Plain Text, highlight
required text, right click and select copy. However, whilst this is
fine for posting small amounts of information into newsgroup
messages longer reports will irritate other newsgroup subscribers.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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"microman" <microman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've hitherto been a Win2K user and have recently switched to using
WinXP -
that's WinXP SP2. However, I'm having difficulty in finding out
whether the
current USB 1.1 and 2.0 driver files that I have for the USB
controllers and
hubs in WinXP are actually up-to-date. I've not yet finished
installing all
of my peripherals and frankly there won't be much point in doing so
unless
and until the proper USB driver files are present.
So, can someone whose USB 2.0 devices have been working
successfully
under
WinXP have a look at the properties of their USB driver files in
Device
Manager and let me know whether mine, below, are up-to-date or not?
It's
those file nos. and dates that are the key.
Rumour has it that, although Service Pack 2 for WinXP is supposed
to
guarantee the correct USB files (or at least make them available to
the user
for selection), it fails to do so.
My PC has six embedded USB 2.0 ports. I recently added a Belkin PCI
card
with five USB 2.0 ports. All of these worked fine under Win2K.
However, it
looks as though the actual driver files for USB 2.0 are different
in
WinXP to
those in Win2K. I obviously searched on the CD that came with the
Belkin card
but the files I transferred from the card still look pretty old to
me.
Here are the three basic sorts of controllers/hubs I have in WinXP,
together
with their file versions and dates. Basically, I'd like to compare
these with
someone else's who's successfully using their USB peripherals:
NEC Open Host Controller, v5.1.2600.2180, dated 1/7/2001. (1st
July,
or 7th
Jan?).
Standard Enhanced Host Controller, v5.1.2600.0, dated 1/6/2002.
USB Root hub, v5.1.2600.2180, dated 1/7/2001.
Given the amount of problems that WinXP users have had with USB 2.0
and the
seemingly constant tweaking by Microsoft of these drivers, I'm left
not
knowing whether mine are the correct ones or not.
.
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