How do you install a hi-speed USB host controller on a Windows XP computer?

Answer 1

For the most part, the High Speed USB controller will be integrated right onto the motherboard of your system. You will sometimes run into this problem when upgrading to or installing a new version of XP, for sometimes it does not readily have the drivers available. What you have to do is to actually find out the motherboard that you have in your system, and download, or request the CD, that has the motherboard resources on it, in order to get Windows to install that particular controller. If you have a name brand computer, you should be able to contact the manufacturer to get the CD or download. However, if you have built the system, or someone else has built you the system, you will need the CD that came with the motherboard. Yes. If you have an empty PCI bus slot on the PC motherboard, you an install a PCI card which provides you 2 or 4 USB2.0 ports which are available at around $10. There are some combo cards which provide both USB and Firewire (1394 ports).

Answer 2

Windows XP will recognise a USB 2.0 controller if you have Service Pack 1 installed.

Many laptops have HI-SPEED USB2 compliant hardware, but often driver problems cause the error "HI-SPEED USB Device Attached To non-HI-SPEED Hub".

This is not easy to fix (I'm still fighting it myself) but supposedly some of these websites can help:

How do you download a hi

http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329632

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?OS=WW1&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=LAT_PNT_P4N_C640&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en

http://www.Google.com/search?hl=xx-hacker&q=%22HI-SPEED+USB+Device+Attached+To+non-HI-SPEED+Hub%22+&btnG=Google+s3a%7C2ch

good luck :)

Answer 3

Yes, if the host controller is installed using a PCMCIA card, since laptops don't have PCI or PCI-Express slots.