Asus P5Q - USB 2.0 running at 1.1 speed

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Or so I've been told. Basically any usb sticks or external hard drives I plug into this board are running slow as hell. Last night I casually dragged about 3 gigs of movies into one of my external (2.0) usb hard drives and to my amazement it took something like fifteen minutes to transfer!

I've asked about and was told that if I go into device manager and my USB controllers are listed as universal they are running at 1.1 speeds. They need to be listed as enhanced to get full 2.0 speeds.

Is this the case? And if so, how do I go about changing them all to full speed?

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I located one of the enhanced usb inputs which my webcam was plugged into and swapped it for a HD and it then worked blazingly fast. But this morning when I switched on my PC the HD was really slow again and device manager stated that the input it was plugged into was universal, despite last night being listed as enhanced :confused:
 
md99 said:
I've asked about and was told that if I go into device manager and my USB controllers are listed as universal they are running at 1.1 speeds. They need to be listed as enhanced to get full 2.0 speeds
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Who told you that?

AFAIK you have USB 2.0 if you can see an Enhanced Controller in Device manager, if you disable USB 2.0 in the BIOS then you will see just Universal-Controllers . . .

Not sure why you getting mixed results with your USB, I've not used your motherboard and I haven't used Vista. Did you install some chipset drivers? . . . Has this been happening since a clean install or more recently?
 
Far as I know its been like this since I got it. I installed all the drivers from the Asus CD I got with it.

Only recently has it started to pi** me off though so I tried asking around. I can't remember the site I asked on, it was just some random free message board about a month ago.

I've also got usb setting set to maximum speed in bios.
 
I'd install the Intel chipset drivers again and see if that makes a difference. 15 mins for 3gigs...sounds faster than USB 1.1 to me anyway unless I'm remembering badly.

How full was the external drive, and have you tested the drive read speed with hdtune or similar? Might be worth a check.
 
So about 1.5 Mbps maximum possible throughput, which is rarely constantly attainable. Assuming 3 gigs exactly was transferred and USB1.1 was running as fast as possible, it should have taken around 4 and a half minutes longer than stated.

It's possible the OP did not time it exactly, and so USB1.1 speed only is not out of the realm of possibility. Nethertheless, it's a rare problem in my experince, especially on an OS as new as vista.
 
alexhull24 said:
It's possible the OP did not time it exactly, and so USB1.1 speed only is not out of the realm of possibility. Nethertheless, it's a rare problem in my experince, especially on an OS as new as vista.
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You're right, I didn't time it exactly. I can just remember glancing at the popup box and noting something like fifteen minutes at one point. I can't remember how long it was running before that. Could have been seconds, could have been minutes as I was browsing online during the process.

I really don't know the statistical speeds about these things, all I do know is things are very, very slow.

I've just downloaded that HD Tune thingie (thanks for the tip) and ran it on my external hard drive which was connected to a 'universal' usb input. Here is the result:

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Then I switched it over to an 'enhanced' usb input and ran it again:

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Anyone?
 
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Asus P5Q USB 2 0 running at 1 1 speed

looking for the board for freenas 0.7 & zfs.. any experience with m3n-ws from asus? How about WoL & drivers for onboard LAN ports?
 
Big.Wayne said:
What does that mean? . . . sorry I'm a bit confused lol! :p

Are you changing something in software or are you physically plugging the device in a different USB socket? :confused:
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antipacker said:
chipset drivers should sort it.
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Downloaded and installed the Intel 4 series chipset drivers and they seem to have done bugger all.

I hate problems like this, I'd much prefer if my graphic card fan blew up or cpu heatsink fell off the mainboard but arsing around with tedious bloody sh*te like this does my head in :mad:
 
Is there a pattern to which USB sockets work properly and which don't? Could be a faulty motherboard.

Have you reinstalled the OS? You could try a linux boot disc and try each port for transfers then. That would rule out a hardware issue if it works.
 
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