New DAW USB 2.0 problems - hair being torn out in clumps!

[Paulseta]

Hi all,

Really hoping someone has come across this and solved it!

I have just built a new DAW with:

Gigabyte K8U-939 board, Athlon 64 2500+
1 Gig of matched Dual Channel ram
M-Audio Delta 1010
110 GB Seagate SATA, 40GB Seagate PATA

There are supposed to be 8 USB ports available - 4 in the back, 4 in the front. My case is a Thermaltake 430W with 2 front USB ports, which I have wired into the board headers (and yes, they're correct...)

Problem is (and this could be the Uli M1689 chipset) that even though Enhanced USB controller is showing in Device Manager, any device plugged into any of the ports works as low speed only. No matter what.

The motherboard manual said to use the Windows XP Service Pack 2 driver for USB 2.0 and NOT the one on the motherboard CDROM. This I have done. Everything seems normal and XP shows everything as being normal.

And yet, no USB 2.0 speeds. Additionally, in the BIOS there is an Enable USB 1.1 and also an enable USB 2.0 selection. I have even tried disabling 1.1 and leaving the 2.0 selector on. No go, then nothing mounts (although device manager shows the enhanced controller and hub as being there and not the Standard ones).

Whew! Think that covers it. Any ideas? I've tried an iPod and a wireless dongle and both don't want to work at 2.0, even though they did in a prior system no problem.

[aussie_techie]

if you want to run a high end DAW scrap that board a buy one with a real chipset. That said try updating the USB controller driver manually, its easiest just to use the 'windows update option' if that doesnt work then its likley a hardware issue.

i dont see why you need USB2 anyway, all usb is needed for is an ilok and possibly a mouse and/or a MIDI interface.

[Paulseta]

Originally Posted by aussie_techie

if you want to run a high end DAW scrap that board a buy one with a real chipset. That said try updating the USB controller driver manually, its easiest just to use the 'windows update option' if that doesnt work then its likley a hardware issue.

i dont see why you need USB2 anyway, all usb is needed for is an ilok and possibly a mouse and/or a MIDI interface.

Thanks for your response.

Problem is:

A) This board has been recommended in many a thread for DAWs as it does not have PCIe or nForce4 which can cause problems with PCI audio cards such as UAD and PCORE etc. It performs about as well as nForce for most applications in benchtesting and actually just got bought by Nvidia lock stock.

B) I need USB2 for my iPod, which I use as a mix checking thingy as it can play uncompressed audio, and my high speed wireless network connector, and possibly a backup drive should firewire not be available.

I will try a manual update of the driver but I think theres some other issue here involving the 1.1 usb "over-riding" the 2.0 somehow.