On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:50:17 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:


Last oddity: I give up - You Win Microsoft.

Fixed. I win.

Went into a busted binary SP3 backup, that wouldn't boot, and pulled
the drivers out of System32 for comparison. Found the file
differences for the old SP1, with prior USB2 functionality, by
manually copying over the same SP3 files to replace the SP1 named file
revisions.

Although they still do show registered for offending prior-dated
versions --MS file listings were oddly cited for later revisions than
discrepancies by those actually provided SP1-- all important
functionality nevertheless has been restored, without USB device error
instances, to hual-ass status on hi-speed, quad-channel Class 10 USB
sticks.

What a joyful trip in learning this was with Gigabyte's/Intel ICH7/10
support drivers. (Found another MB disc, btw, besides the VISTA only,
ostensibly -- takes better to XP, though surprisingly no help there,
either -- gets the same results in a song/dance routine for breaking
USB2 down to USB1).

Too bad about blind bats flying to brick walls. Looks to be an
adequately built MB that didn't skimp on solid hardware components,
otherwise.