Because intel chipsets does not have usb 3.1 controller, that is why.
Gigabyte uses alpine ridge chip, which is actually thunderbolt controller.
Gigabyte is the only manufacturer with this type of usb 3.1, others use asmedia 1142 (i guess its cheaper)
@ 100PIER:
The ASMedia USB3.0 and 3.1 drivers are identical, whereas Intel has developed and released completely different USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 drivers.
Siince the Intel USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 drivers even have absolutely different names, it will not be easy to switch from one driver to the other.
@Fernando ,
Thanks for the clarification.
May be can we hope that Intel will release in the future only one driver covering USB 3.0 and USB 3.1, this will simplify the life for every body.
Maybe, when 200 series comes with usb 3.1 support.
@ all:
Since 100PIER returned meanwhile to the in-box MS USB 3.0 drivers, there seem to be not many users, who are still using the Intel USB 3.0 drivers, which have been modded and signed by me.
So here is my question: Is there still a demand or interest in these modded+signed USB 3.0 drivers?
If not resp. if I will not get a feedback, I will remove them from the start post.
@Fernando
After all the tests I have done, I have observed the in-box W10 (x64) MS USB 3.0 drivers offers more compatibilities with any USB 3.0 devices.
May be sometimes performance is not as expected, but we can hope significant improvements in a future OS update.
So, definitively my preference is to forget all these Intel USB 3.0 V3.0 and V4.0 branchs.
Any chance one of these drivers could be used (or modified for use) with a >2.2TB GPT HDD in an external USB 3.1 enclosure in conjunction with 32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3? I have four 3 TB WD Reds (WD30EFRX), one of which Iāve had in my desktop (specs below) formatted GPT working happily with the Paragon GPT Loader for some time now. Just bought two Vantec NexStar NST-370A31 USB 3.1 enclosures for a couple of the other drives (formerly in a NAS box). Drives work fine formatted GPT in the enclosures with 64-bit Windows 8 (multi-boot on same system). Enclosures donāt come with drivers or any other software; just work with USB drivers built into Vista and higher. I did test a 500 GB MBR disk in the enclosures with XP Pro, and worked just fine (as expected). So itās just the ability to read GPT via USB thatās the issue. They show up in XP under Device Manager\Disk Drives as āWDC WD30 EFRX-68AX9N0 USB Device,ā but donāt show up in Disk Manager.
The enclosures ultimately arenāt intended for this system, which is old (will be building a new one in a year or so); but XP Pro on this hardware is still my main workstation (I work from home) until I have time to build/configure anotherāwhich is a mammoth task. So I donāt care about speed, just would like to be able to access the full capacity of the disks from XP in the interim (ā¦which could be a while). I know itās easy to say just use Win 8 (or upgrade to 10); but what you donāt know is I have >$20,000 in software that takes an eon to load and customizeājust donāt want to get into that, as it will cost me a fortune in time.
Iām familiar with the 32-bit addressing limit issue, so no need to go into that. I ask here because after reading this thread it seems some folks are willing to think out of the box. 
Obviously Paragon figured out GPT for 32-bit XP via the SATA interface; just wish they did the same via USB. Unfortunately, I know little of the USB spec; so in my ignorance this may be an absurd request. If so, I apologize.
Ideally, would like to be able to read the drives from within XP Pro with the enclosures connected directly via USB. But I could also connect the enclosures to my Synology DiskStation DS412+ NAS via USB 3.0 ports on back over LAN.
Thanks for any help.
@ WindowsPain:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!
Which one of "these" USB drivers do you mean?
By the way: The "32bit Intel USB 3.0 drivers v4.0.0.36 mod+signed by Fernando" should be installable from within Windows XP (I have removed the OS restrictions), but I doubt, that the driver will work properly.
Regarding the ability of Windows XP to detect any Guimode Partition Table (GPT) I cannot help you.
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)
@Fernando
I meant any of the drivers you made available at the beginning of this thread.
The main ingredient here is USB and GPT on a 32-bit OS; and the more I read, it doesnāt appear that what I want is possible if the external devices are connected to a USB port (whether MOBO or hub) on the computer.
If I could buy a USB-to-eSATA cable/converter to connect the external USB drives to eSATA ports on my computer, that might work as the Paragon GPT loader should translate the data coming through the SATA Ports. But I havenāt found any yet that are powered; and the USB port on the enclosures is a Type B. There are plenty of options for connecting external SATA/eSATA devices to USB ports on the computer (since power is supplied to the converter via USB); but to go the other direction, the adapter/converter would need a separate power source.
I do have a couple old eSATA/USB/Firewire enclosures for which Iām dumping the drives (old and overheating). Might just put the newer drives in these enclosures and use eSATA in the meantime.
Thanks for the comments.
Is there a benefit of fernando modded intel usb3 version 4 drivers over the latest Intel drivers when using 7 series board.Thanks.
The INF files of the USB drivers are only responsabe for the driver installation, the management of the devices during the daily work are done only by the SYS files (= real drivers).
Since I do not modify any driver, but just the associated INF file, I cannot help you.
Why donāt you test it yourself?
Why donāt you test it yourself?
Yes I will try it. I was just asking if anyone knew of any specific changes/improvements that were made.
Yes, I need it, and thank you for it! Your modded Intel USB 3.0 driver solved my Canon LiDE 220 scanner "disconnection during scanning" problem under Win10 x64.
Hi Fernando.
Iāve tried to add all (unmodded) drivers here to win7 boot.wim using dism 10 (10240) x64 ran under win7ult x64 host. For x86 boot.wim, no errors. For x64 boot.wim, dism errors when processing the following INFs:
64bit Texas Instruments USB 3.0 Filter Drivers v1.0.0.5 WHQL
64bit VIA USB 3.0 Drivers v6.1.7600.4903 WHQL (both controller and hub INFs)
According to dism, corresponding .SYS files are not properly signed. I then used sysinternals sigcheck.exe 2.2 to verify signature, and x64 VIA drivers are indeed unsigned (should not). However TI filters are properly signed according to sigcheck, so not sure why dism doesnāt like them.
Anyway, ended up using /ForceUnsigned parameter to add them all to x64 boot.wim. Could any VIA USB 3.0 user confirm that the x64 drivers here are installing without problems?
Thanks for your report.
I have corrected the start post regarding the WHQL certification of the VIA USB 3.0 drivers.
New driver for Intel USB3.1. Updates driver to 15.2.30.11
link http://download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/Dā¦er_usb31_ar.zip
Update of the Start Post
Changelog:
- new: 32/64bit Intel USB 3.1 Drivers v15.2.30.11 WHQL dated 07/23/2015
- new: Intel USB 3.1 Drivers+Software Set v15.2.30.250 dated 07/30/2015 (already extracted)
- removed: 32/64bit Intel USB 3.1 Drivers v15.2.30.8
- removed: Intel USB 3.1 Drivers+Software Set v15.2.30.8
Thanks to eroder for the info and the link to the source files.
Good luck with these new Intel USB 3.1 drivers!
Fernando
The modded Intel 3.0 drivers are a huge improvement for me.
Using Intel Z77 / Windows 10 with an external USB 3.0 HDD enclosure.
Stock Microsoft Drivers: 30MB/s max
Modded Intel 3.0 Drivers: 200MB/s max