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Driver for PCI USB 2 Card disappears at shutdown.
Thanks for the reply, Unionflag....
This VIA USB2 card has been in my system for almost two years, and the AIRNET CD was packaged with the PCI card when I bought it. I have always had to use it to install the card driver, in which the embedded "Readme" file says it accesses the Microsoft Update site to retrieve the driver if it is not found on the system.
I have only one VIA USB PCI card and it is a USB2 card. After a restart my system identifies it as USB1.1 until I reinstall the proper driver. I do, however have integrated (onboard) USB 1.1 sockets, and so have the standard USB1 drivers. To my knowledge, any USB2 card/system is backward compatible with USB1, so my feeling is that finding no USB2 drivers, the system is installing USB1 drivers. When this happens, I get the following message:
This device can perform faster.
The USB device can perform faster if connected to a Hi-speed USB 2.0 port. For a list of available ports click here. (There none listed.)
That is my cue to reinstall the USB2 driver. I'm having difficulty understanding why proper driver is "lost" if I shut down the system.
After installing the driver, I still show the previously listed USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller but now VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller follows this listing.
You will note in the Everest Summary, That my AOPEN AX4BS motherboard is a venerable ancestor of many more modern boards, and that it has an Intel Brookdale i845 Chipset, hence there could not be an onboard VIA controller.
I guess your last comment expressed concern whether the external drive was in fact connected to a port on the card in question. It is in fact plugged to one of the five ports on the card. The card also has three other connections, none of which is powered by the card, and only one of which would be likely to be active concurrently with the Maxtor 160GB drive. However the drive enclosure is powered from the mains. All other USB connections are also data-only.
If you have any other thoughts about the problem I will welcome them. Thanks for your response.
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