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I have heard that You should try and match the chipset on your MB to the controller on the card..IOW same manufacturers
"John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I have purchased a couple of USB2 cards over the last year. Somehow, most of them start misbehaving after a little while. What is a good USB2 card ? TIA |
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Belkin...they have a great pci card version
"John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I have purchased a couple of USB2 cards over the last year. Somehow, most of them start misbehaving after a little while. What is a good USB2 card ? TIA |
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Need a good USB2 Card, please advise
Hi, I have purchased a couple of USB2 cards over the last year. Somehow, most of them start misbehaving after a little while. What is a good USB2 card ? TIA |
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"John Smith" wrote in message ...
Hi, I have purchased a couple of USB2 cards over the last year. Somehow, most of them start misbehaving after a little while. What is a good USB2 card ? Solo717 at www.fatwallet.com found this: www.4linkcomm.com/usb20pcica5p1.html only $9.99, and with free ground shipping you specify coupon code FSHIP101. The picture shows something that looks exactly like my Maxtor card, which would be good since my Maxtor uses the NEC brand USB 2.0 chip (large, square, 160 pins), considered by www.usbman.com to be the best, least troublesome available. But companies sometimes change card designs without saying anything or even changing the box (as IO Gear did, which is too bad since their USB 2.0 cards are often free after $10-15 rebate), so you may want to first ask about the chip. Some other rands of USB 2.0 cards with the NEC chip are Adaptec, Belkin, and DLink. www.usbman.com does not like USB 2.0 cards based on chips by ALi (small, square, 64 pins), VIA (rectangular, about 128 pins), or SiS. I haven't tried any SiS USB 2.0 cards, but the ALi chip requires Windows 98SE or later to work in USB 2.0 mode (only USB 1.1 operation otherwise), and the VIA USB 2.0 chip caused read aborts with my flash card reader, even though the reader is only USB 1.1. Wierder, this USB chip was incompatible with an old VIA-based mobo made by FIC, a sister company of VIA, but not with equally old mobos based on SiS or Intel chipsets. Maybe those companies understood VIA's chips better than VIA did. |
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Thank you, the links are great...
"larrymoencurly" wrote in message om... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I have purchased a couple of USB2 cards over the last year. Somehow, most of them start misbehaving after a little while. What is a good USB2 card ? Solo717 at www.fatwallet.com found this: www.4linkcomm.com/usb20pcica5p1.html only $9.99, and with free ground shipping you specify coupon code FSHIP101. The picture shows something that looks exactly like my Maxtor card, which would be good since my Maxtor uses the NEC brand USB 2.0 chip (large, square, 160 pins), considered by www.usbman.com to be the best, least troublesome available. But companies sometimes change card designs without saying anything or even changing the box (as IO Gear did, which is too bad since their USB 2.0 cards are often free after $10-15 rebate), so you may want to first ask about the chip. Some other rands of USB 2.0 cards with the NEC chip are Adaptec, Belkin, and DLink. www.usbman.com does not like USB 2.0 cards based on chips by ALi (small, square, 64 pins), VIA (rectangular, about 128 pins), or SiS. I haven't tried any SiS USB 2.0 cards, but the ALi chip requires Windows 98SE or later to work in USB 2.0 mode (only USB 1.1 operation otherwise), and the VIA USB 2.0 chip caused read aborts with my flash card reader, even though the reader is only USB 1.1. Wierder, this USB chip was incompatible with an old VIA-based mobo made by FIC, a sister company of VIA, but not with equally old mobos based on SiS or Intel chipsets. Maybe those companies understood VIA's chips better than VIA did. |
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