Is this right??? USB 2.0 question

valve90210

valve90210

valve90210

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I have been given a couple of old computers from work, which they were getting rid of. They're not a massive spec but they were free and perfectly good for what I want (basically just to connect up with a scanner to give me adedicated scanning computer). I plugged in an external hard drive, and found that the onboard usb ports on the mother board seem to only be USB 1.1. (seeing as it took a good few mins to copy across some software I wanted on the new comp.

I just spoke to one of the IT chaps at work and he said that it would be possible to upgrade the drivers to USb 2.0 as the hardware is the same...is that true???

He reckons that if I go to control panel>System>hardware and go to the properties for the USB controller, and delete the drivers (not the intel ones he said), then reboot, it should find the newer drivers and will be updated to USB 2.0. This is using windows 2000 SP4.

It shoulds a bit fanciful to me, is it true???


Valve
 
I think if you install service pack 2 to xp then you'll have support for usb2 on your OS - but if they're not usb 2.0 hardware, I don't see it being possible.

If it does work, it will be because they were USB 2.0 all along, and now have the correct drivers.
 
IF the usb ports are usb2 then yes. windows doesnt always install the usb2.0 drivers, so sometimes you do have to do that to get usb2.0 speeds working.
 
I think what I'll do is run belarc advisor and see what the motherboard is and see what the USB ports should be running at.

If they should be USB2 then I'll give it a go.

Valve
 
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