are drivers needed?

Just got a 4 port 2.0 USB pci card to stuff in my desktop. The USB ports
now in it are 1.1s and slow as molasses on big data transfers.

The card came in a box, with a small disk labelled "drivers". I have no
drive small enough to run the disk in.

I thought this thing was a "plug 'n play" thingee. If so, will it work
without my having to use the drivers (running WinXP).

If I need the drivers, how do I deal with the small disk?

rb wrote:
> Just got a 4 port 2.0 USB pci card to stuff in my desktop. The USB ports
> now in it are 1.1s and slow as molasses on big data transfers.
>
> The card came in a box, with a small disk labelled "drivers". I have no
> drive small enough to run the disk in.
>
> I thought this thing was a "plug 'n play" thingee. If so, will it work
> without my having to use the drivers (running WinXP)?

Maybe. I could probably be more specific if I actually knew what card
you're talking about.

> If I need the drivers, how do I deal with the small disk?

If it's just 8 cm (diameter) optical disc, it should work in your
optical drive. The only spot that might cause a problem would be if you
have your pc turn up on its side such that the drive is vertical, in
spite of the system builder's expectations.

The card is a PCI MULTI I/O

The disk is approx 2" diameter.

I think all I've got is a floppy drive that is about the size of the disk.

"rb" <rbig@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:2Ke_h.17641$Pq5.13884@bignews6.bellsouth.net. ..
> The card is a PCI MULTI I/O
>
> The disk is approx 2" diameter.
>
> I think all I've got is a floppy drive that is about the size of the disk.

It goes into your CD drive.

Better yet, go to their website and dowload the latest drivers.

I think I inadvertently misinformed everyone. The pci multi i/o is a
serial-parallel port card. I think my card was just sent in a pci multi
i/o box, as my card is definitely a 5 port 2.0 USB card. This was what the
listing says:

PCI USB2.0 Controller Card VIA chipset 4+1 ports

rb wrote:
> I think I inadvertently misinformed everyone. The pci multi i/o is a
> serial-parallel port card. I think my card was just sent in a pci multi
> i/o box, as my card is definitely a 5 port 2.0 USB card. This was what the
> listing says:
>
> PCI USB2.0 Controller Card VIA chipset 4+1 ports
>

Some info here:

(Which OSes have support built in...)
http://www.usbman.com/USB%202%20News.htm

(Checking for USB2...)
http://www.usbman.com/Guides/checking_for_usb_2.htm

(Cleanup in Safe Mode - forces Windows to re-enumerate...)
http://www.usbman.com/Guides/Cleanup...afe%20Mode.htm

Paul

Thanks for that USB web site. Great info. I signed up for their forum.