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usb 2.0 and 1.1
Name: angrymen2001 Date: February 28, 2004 at 06:28:02 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: XP2600+/ 512M
Comment:
I have an Asus AN8X deluxe Motherboard. It has onboard USB 2.0 (4 ports) When I connect my USB 2.0 scanner to it everything works fine. As soon as I connect a 1.1 device to it, the scanner no longer works until I remove the USB 1.1 device, uninstall/ reinstall scanner sw Any ideas or suggestions? This is killing me
Name: pcfixinguy Date: February 28, 2004 at 09:53:51 Pacific
Reply:
Angry,
As soon as you put a 1.1 device in a 2.0 USB, the whole system will revert to the 1.1 speed. While well designed hardware should cope with this, scanners are notorious for wanting the whole thing to themselves, and tend to go into a corner and sulk because you took their speed away. There is no way round it when this happens, and yes it is a pain. My only suggestion would be to obtain an old USB 1.1 PCI card, and use that for your 1.1 device. A 1.1 card is only going to set you back $20, and probably much less.
Safe Computing...:o)
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Response Number 2
Name: angrymen2001 Date: February 28, 2004 at 15:26:10 Pacific
Summary: I have two front USB 1.1 ports that are OEM (Gateway). I have installed four USB 2.0 ports in a back PCI slot. The USB 2.0 works fine as far as I can tell. The device manager recognizes them and I hav...
Summary: ive looked at the instructions and well its vague to say the least, it says the motherboard provides 1 pinout for usb 2.0 (pinout for the front usb ports, and that in order to use usb 2.0 you need to ...
Summary: Most USB 2.0 devices are backwards compatible. If you do not see 1.1 compatibility listed in the documentation, try it and see if it works. It will not damage anything. ...
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