VanguardLH wrote:
Paul wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote:
T wrote:
T wrote:
Anyone have a favorite PCIe USB 3.1 card that actually
works right? Siig?
I am looking at this one:
http://www.siig.com/it-products/usb/...-type-a-c.html
But I can not tell which chipset it uses
Found it:
Chipset: Asmedia ASM1142
Wonder if it works any better than the asmedia 2142?
Note the list of operating systems supported by this card at:
http://www.siig.com/download/search/...d=JU-P20A12-S1
(when going to your link for the product page, I clicked on Downloads to
see what were available for this card.)
Windows 7 is not included. Why? SIIG does *not* provide a driver for
this card. They rely on the one included in Windows. However, as
mentioned in my reply to Paul, Windows 7 only supports up to USB 2.0.
Windows 7 does *NOT* natively support USB 3.x, so you cannot use this
card with Windows 7. you MUST install a driver in Windows 7 to add USB
3.x, and SIIG doesn't provide one for that card.
ASM1142
http://www.asmedia.com.tw/eng/e_show...&cate_index=98
* Support driver on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1
* Support various Linux Kernels
ASM2142
http://www.asmedia.com.tw/eng/e_show...cate_index=175
* Support driver on Windows7, Windows8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10
* Support various Linux kernels
Which implies that (somehow) the "flavor" of the 2142 isn't supported
by Windows 10 itself at the moment.
However, take these web page things with a grain of salt, because
I've seen promises of drivers before on a chip manufacturer site,
where in fact no such driver existed. Windows 7 is still in extended
support, but companies do whatever the hell they feel like most
of the time.
It's strange that Siig doesn't offer a driver. Some of
Siigs competitors are a bit better about this stuff.
I couldn't find drivers at Asmedia's web site, only at the SIIG site but
they don't offer one for this SIIG card. As you noted by Asmedia's
specs for that controller chip, Windows 7 is supported ... maybe. Be
interesting to see if T gets Intel's USB3 drivers to work under Windows
7 for that card.
It almost looks like there is a different stack at work
when working with one of those chips (3.1) ?
https://plugable.com/2015/03/05/wind...st-controller/
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (asmtxhci.sys)
Looks like a good solid mature technology.
Paul