Was USB2.0 driver embedded in Windows XP SP2?

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5 total messages Started by goo_lu1 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:17

Author: goo_lu1
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:17

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Hi,

I had bought one 2nd hand ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. In software
support chapter of its manual, it said original software support CD
had USB 2.0 driver. Because the board was 2nd hand, it didn't come
with original support CD, so I searched for USB 2.0 driver from ASUS
support site http://support.asus.com/ and found no USB 2.0 driver
there. I would like to ask if USB 2.0 drivers will be installed
automatically with Windows XP SP2?

Tks!

Re: Was USB2.0 driver embedded in Windows XP SP2?

Author: philo
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:33

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goo_lu1 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had bought one 2nd hand ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. In software
> support chapter of its manual, it said original software support CD
> had USB 2.0 driver. Because the board was 2nd hand, it didn't come
> with original support CD, so I searched for USB 2.0 driver from ASUS
> support site http://support.asus.com/ and found no USB 2.0 driver
> there. I would like to ask if USB 2.0 drivers will be installed
> automatically with Windows XP SP2?
> 
> Tks!
the drivers are included with xp_sp2

Re: Was USB2.0 driver embedded in Windows XP SP2?

Author: John
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:50

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On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:17:47 -0800 (PST), goo_lu1
<goo_lu1@yahoo.com.hk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I had bought one 2nd hand ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. In software
>support chapter of its manual, it said original software support CD
>had USB 2.0 driver. Because the board was 2nd hand, it didn't come
>with original support CD, so I searched for USB 2.0 driver from ASUS
>support site http://support.asus.com/ and found no USB 2.0 driver
>there. I would like to ask if USB 2.0 drivers will be installed
>automatically with Windows XP SP2?
>
>Tks!

Yes, SP2 has the drivers.  In fact, if you tried to install the driver
from the support disk and you have SP2, it would tell you that you
don't need it.

Reply-to address is real

Re: Was USB2.0 driver embedded in Windows XP SP2?

Author: Barry Watzman
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:30

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No way to answer the question; drivers for SOME USB 2.0 chips were 
imbedded, but not all.  And since we don't know either what chips the 
board used, nor which drivers were embedded, we can't answer the question.

goo_lu1 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had bought one 2nd hand ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. In software
> support chapter of its manual, it said original software support CD
> had USB 2.0 driver. Because the board was 2nd hand, it didn't come
> with original support CD, so I searched for USB 2.0 driver from ASUS
> support site http://support.asus.com/ and found no USB 2.0 driver
> there. I would like to ask if USB 2.0 drivers will be installed
> automatically with Windows XP SP2?
> 
> Tks!

Re: Was USB2.0 driver embedded in Windows XP SP2?

Author: Paul
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:47

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Barry Watzman wrote:
> No way to answer the question; drivers for SOME USB 2.0 chips were 
> imbedded, but not all.  And since we don't know either what chips the 
> board used, nor which drivers were embedded, we can't answer the question.

P4S8X-MX = SIS661GX/SIS964.

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller

00:03.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 0f)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:03.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 0f)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:03.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 0f)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:03.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller [1039:7002]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

OK, so I look in my WinXP SP3 install, at the usbport.inf file, and I find...

; =================== SIS ======================================
[SIS.Section]
%PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7001&CC_0C0310.DeviceDesc%=OHCI_HYDRA.Dev,PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7001&CC_0C0310
%PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7002.DeviceDesc%=EHCI.Dev,PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7002

So at least WinXP SP3 knows about it. I don't have any other usbport.inf files
to look at, to tell you what support was like in earlier Service Packs.

USB2 drivers are supposed to be included in WinXP SP1 or later.

*******

This file is pre-historic, and was released before SP1. It was released,
before Microsoft made the chip makers remove their files. You should not
really use this. I'm only pointing this out, to show that at one time,
a file was made available for customers. But it would be foolish at
this point in time, to use this file. In 2010, this file is inappropriate,
and is only going to make more of a mess than anything else.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/misc/usb20/usb2_sis2kxp101d.zip

    Paul

> 
> 
> goo_lu1 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had bought one 2nd hand ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. In software
>> support chapter of its manual, it said original software support CD
>> had USB 2.0 driver. Because the board was 2nd hand, it didn't come
>> with original support CD, so I searched for USB 2.0 driver from ASUS
>> support site http://support.asus.com/ and found no USB 2.0 driver
>> there. I would like to ask if USB 2.0 drivers will be installed
>> automatically with Windows XP SP2?
>>
>> Tks!

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