Epox Mobo Questions

[CefiroZ]

I've got a new EP-9NPA+ SLi installed on my PC and I'm having a couple of problems.

The first is that the USB ports seem slow in Windows. I can read/write to my usb pen drive MUCH faster in Kubuntu than I can in Windows. I am wondering if this is because Windows is only using them as USB1.1 instead of 2.0. Is there a way I can verify this? I checked around the internet a bit and found to look for "enhanced" in the device name in device manager. I have a "Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller" listed and some hub/mass storage device listings. If I don't have 2.0 functioning correctly anyone have ideas?

[EDIT] I have been doing a little more searching and have seen that this board has some issues with USB2.0. What are these problems, do they apply to my situation, and are they Windows specific (since USB seems to be running better in Linux)? [/EDIT]

Another--possibly related--issue is that Windows always has one "Unknown Device" listed in device manager. Firewire, silicon images RAID, graphics card, sound card, and everything else I can think of is installed. Could this be NVIDIA RAID? That is not listed under my RAID devices. Or, could it be the usb2.0 controller? Or something else? Anyone know what it would be or how I could find out?

System Specs:
EP-9NPA+ SLi
AMD Venice 3200+
Patriot 1GB RAM
Pioneer DVD
Lite-on CD-RW
Santa Cruz sound card
Floppy drive

If you need any more information please ask.

Thanks!

 

[BlindedByScience]

Another--possibly related--issue is that Windows always has one "Unknown Device" listed in device manager.

A guess - it sounds like your motherboard's chipset drivers aren't installed properly. Those "unknown devices" go away pretty quickly when the proper drivers are installed. That could also explain why USB is acting "strange". Also, make sure you have SP2 for Windows (assuming XP) installed.....

Good Luck - B.B.S.

 

[CefiroZ]

A guess - it sounds like your motherboard's chipset drivers aren't installed properly. Those "unknown devices" go away pretty quickly when the proper drivers are installed. That could also explain why USB is acting "strange". Also, make sure you have SP2 for Windows (assuming XP) installed.....

Good Luck - B.B.S.

I have SP2 and all the other applicable windows updates installed. I have tried both the 6.53 nForce drivers that came with the board (and that Epox has on their website) and the latest 6.70 from Nvidia.

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

there's this little app "unknown device identifier" never really used it but you can give it a try...