USB 2.0 speed is way off on my computer

[bobbyZ34]

I've got a computer I built about 8 months ago, my first.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.00 Ghz
Asus A8V Deluxe socket 939
WinXP Professional SP2
1 Gb dual channel Geil memory

Up until recently I've only connected periferals to the USB ports (mouse, scanner, occasionally memory stick and SD card thru adapter) and I never really transfered more than 256mb at a time so I didn't notice the slow speeds.

Recently I have had to connect large hard drives to transfer large movie files and a 8Gb folder would take 25 minutes to transfer. I had tried multiple drives on both the onboard USB 2.0 ports as well as an additional PCI USB 2.0 card I added recently.

I emailed ASUS tech support and they said to "Make sure you have SP1 or SP2 installed from Microsoft. Do not make any changes in the BIOS, clear cmos if possible. Go into safe mode remove all the USB drivers and restart the system."

Google search I found this info

Before I try something like this I was wondering if anyone else had any similar experiences and what they did to resolve them.

Thanks, Bob

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: bobbyZ34
I've got a computer I built about 8 months ago, my first.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.00 Ghz
Asus A8V Deluxe socket 939
WinXP Professional SP2
1 Gb dual channel Geil memory

Up until recently I've only connected periferals to the USB ports (mouse, scanner, occasionally memory stick and SD card thru adapter) and I never really transfered more than 256mb at a time so I didn't notice the slow speeds.

Recently I have had to connect large hard drives to transfer large movie files and a 8Gb folder would take 25 minutes to transfer. I had tried multiple drives on both the onboard USB 2.0 ports as well as an additional PCI USB 2.0 card I added recently.

I emailed ASUS tech support and they said to "Make sure you have SP1 or SP2 installed from Microsoft. Do not make any changes in the BIOS, clear cmos if possible. Go into safe mode remove all the USB drivers and restart the system."

Google search I found this info

Before I try something like this I was wondering if anyone else had any similar experiences and what they did to resolve them.

Thanks, Bob

i had the same exact problem with the same exact mobo


go into control panel -> system -> hardware tab, then device manager

then find the usb tab and look to see that the drivers are all correct and there are no errors.



on my system i had a driver error for my USB controller or something like that, fixed it and voila, faster speeds

 

[bobbyZ34]

Unfortunately, I've got no errors under DEVICE MANAGER > USB CONTROLLERS. I wish it was that simple.

 

[bobbyZ34]

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And I went into the setup during boot and double checked the USB settings and it is setup to HiSpeed, which for this mobo says it should be 480 mbps

 

[MobiusPizza]

Originally posted by: bobbyZ34
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And I went into the setup during boot and double checked the USB settings and it is setup to HiSpeed, which for this mobo says it should be 480 mbps

Did you install the nVidia Forceware driver (chipset driver)?
What is the CPU usage when you transfer?

Are the video files few large file or many small files? It would do better at the former case
What HDD are the video files situated?

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX

Originally posted by: bobbyZ34
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And I went into the setup during boot and double checked the USB settings and it is setup to HiSpeed, which for this mobo says it should be 480 mbps

Did you install the nVidia Forceware driver (chipset driver)?
What is the CPU usage when you transfer?

Are the video files few large file or many small files? It would do better at the former case
What HDD are the video files situated?

Yea, i forgot to mention that........... Make sure you have the newest Nvidia Drivers installed (for your chipset, you can get em from nvidia.com in downloads, and it will be under Platform -> Nforce4AMD)

 

[bobbyZ34]

I don't get why nVidia would have anything to do with this board. It uses the VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 chipsets. Could someone explain how this works?

Asus A8V Deluxe Specifications

Thanks, Bob

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: bobbyZ34
I don't get why nVidia would have anything to do with this board. It uses the VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 chipsets. Could someone explain how this works?

Asus A8V Deluxe Specifications

Thanks, Bob

Because people don't always read...

Get your drivers for your chipset here, even if you installed them off the CD. these will be the latest.

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[BigCoolJesus]

sorry, i though that was the Nvidia model, but its not

 

[nxh]

yea my laptop seems kinda slow for usb to usb transfers. It takes 50 minutes to copy 30 gigs of data from one external usb hard drive to another external usb hard drive. Is that normal speeds?

 

[nxh]

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[nxh]

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