A7N8X USB 2.0 not showing up in WinXP DM...

[Wolfchild]

I bought this NF2 board off the forums a while back and can't figure out how to enable the USB 2.0 drivers....this is some NF2 issue isn't it? I'm using XP Pro.

EDIT: this was a bare board so I don't have the CD, at the time I'm posting this I can't get to the Asus drivers online.

 

[Shooters]

What do you mean by "enable the USB 2.0 drivers"?

Do the USB ports work at all?

Why can't you just download the nForce drivers from nVidia?

 

[Wolfchild]

USB ports work fine. In Device Manager, under the USB stuff, I do not see any USB 2.0 items.
On my other computers which have KT333 boards, I see "USB 2.0 Root Hub" or something like that
in each one. I remember seeing something a while back to the effect that you have to trick an NF2
setup into showing the USB 2.0.

IF I'm getting the same transfer rate, no matter what Device Manager says, to my external USB 2.0 hard drives, then I guess I don't care that it doesn't say USB 2.0. It does seem like data moves a little faster between said external drives and those VIA-based setups though.

I don't want to use the whole NVidia driver set - I had problems with the NVidia IDE drivers on this setup and went back to the Intel drivers right away.

 

[Shooters]

I have an nForce2 also (Abit NF7-S), and under Device Manager it just says USB Root Hub, no mention about 2.0. But I know it's 2.0 because I had to reinstall the USB drivers after installing SP1.

I think you're probably fine unless you get horrid transfer rates like you mentioned.

 

[mechBgon]

If you see the word "Enhanced" in there anywhere, that also means 2.0. If in doubt, simply do an Uninstall of all the USB stuff and let Windows rediscover it at the reboot.

 

[Wolfchild]

"Enhanced" is definitely in there. Thanks.

The transfer rate thing might have been in my head, it's certainly not bad.