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Old May 7th 21, 11:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default O.T. Missing Folder/files

Robert in CA wrote:
I tried downloading autoruns but its a zip file and I don't have
7Zip (even then I don't know how to use it) otherwise how do
I open it?

I'm not too worried about the speed of the backups but I would
like to upgrade the 780 in anyway to make it better. I have (3)
available slots for cards in the back of the 780.

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Are you saying for me to turn on the sticky key and filter key boxes?

Robert


Yeah, your 780 has a video card. So that slot is out
for a USB3.1 Rev2 card with x2 wiring and x4 PCI Express connector.

But you can still stick a NEC card in the bottom slot and speed
up backups and restores to the USB3 external enclosure. That's
the card that was $12 or so.

NEC probably doesn't make those upd72xxxx chips any more, so
when cards like those show up, they won't last forever. Asmedia
still makes chips however, and they usually provide Windows 7
drivers (at least for the moment). If some extra-whizzy cards
come out (one with a USB-C connector comes to mind, one that
runs at 20Gbit/sec), then the drivers for that might
not go back to Windows 7. But generally, you can get 10Gbit/sec
USB3 functions on a Windows 7 PC (that's about 5X the speed of
a hard drive). That's still within range. I'm not planning
on going any further than that, here. As
there are no nice toys for the interfaces like that.
There might be storage toys for hundreds of dollars, but...
no thanks. My days of buying orphan hardware are pretty
well over.

The only reason I bought the Asmedia USB3.1 Rev2 capability,
is what I really wanted was a plain USB3 port that runs at the "full speed"
intended. The other USB3 ports I have, don't run flat out like
they're supposed to. The one on the typing machine, sometimes
doesn't even manage 200MB/sec. One of the reasons for this,
is when the computer boots, the slot is in PCI Express Rev1 mode
instead of PCI Express Rev2 mode. The detection doesn't seem
to be spotless in hardware. Using a card with x2 lanes, means
you get double "whatever a mess it made" delivers. If they'd
made a chip with x4 PCIe lanes (like they should have), I would
have even paid extra for that. I'm a sucker for wretched excess.
Doing the job right, means one fewer bottleneck in hardware.

Paul
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