Since I have a camera, mp3 player and jump drive that utilize USB 2.0, I recently bought a USB 2.0 card off of eBay to put in my computer. However, after installing it in an available PCI slot, I turn on the computer and it does not recognize the new card. It doesn't search for drivers...it doesn't show up under system devices....nothing. I tried plugging something into it, and again, nothing happened. I tried the card in a couple different PCI slots and got the same results each time. Am I missing something? My computer is a three-year-old Gateway, so I thought maybe the motherboard doesn't support USB 2.0? Or maybe there is a BIOS setting that I am missing? I would appreciate any help with this!

If it's not recognised at all, in any slots, I'd say you've got a faulty card. Your mb doesn't need to know what usb2 is as it's all handled by the card you're adding. "I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."

I e-mailed the guy I bought it from and still have not heard back from him. Meanwhile, I asked an IT guy at work and he suggested taking the card out, then installing the drivers, then re-inserting the card. According to him, you sometimes have to do that with older motherboards. Is that true? I was under the assumption that Windows XP would automatically install some default drivers, even without the CD the card came with. At any rate, I wouldn't even know which drivers to install...there are several on the disk!