[Outdated] USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers (original and modded)

[Fernando]

@roberto

After the card is installed in the machine it shows-up in ‘Device Manager’, under ‘Other Devices > PCI to PCI bridge’, with yellow exclamation-marks.
I presume this means Windows 10 has no native driver for it?

Maybe not, but you can do a right-click onto the yellow flagged device and choose the options "Update driver" > "Search for updated drivers on Windows Update".
Which is the reason for the yellow exclamation mark (right click onto it and choose the option "Properties")?

System Restore reported the drivers which would be removed as the Etron driver (as expected) and - puzzlingly - another driver which I hadn’t known had been installed at the same point:- INTEL (System) 13/10/2016 (oem71.inf). It never appeared again at any of the subsequent install device/System Restore iterations I performed.

You can easily find out the sort and manufacturer of that driver, if you open the INF file named oem71.inf, which you can find within the C:\Windows\INF directory.

[roberto]

@Fernando

…you can do a right-click onto the yellow flagged device and choose the options "Update driver" > "Search for updated drivers on Windows Update".

Yes, I did that before. It turned out that the driver Windows then searched for wasn’t one that this Etron chip requires. Windows reported that the only driver it had found was "Intel Xeon E3-1200/1500 v 5th/6th Gen Intel Core PCIe Controller (x 16) -1901" and that that was not the right one for this device!

You can easily find out the sort and manufacturer of that driver, if you open the INF file named oem71.inf, which you can find within the C:\Windows\INF directory.

Ah, I see, thanks. Here’s the file header

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; **  Filename: SkylakeSystem.inf                           **
; **  Abstract: Assigns the null driver to devices          **
; **            for yellow-bang removal and                 **
; **            brands Intel(R) devices     
 

I assume that means that it isn't the cause of the problem I'm having.

[Fernando]

@roberto :
Thanks for the details of the oem71.inf file.
Neither the file named SkylakeSystem.inf nor the other one for the device named "Intel Xeon E3-1200/1500 v 5th/6th Gen Intel Core PCIe Controller (x 16) -1901" are real drivers, but just Intel Chipset Device information files, which are not able to manage an USB 3.0/3.1 Controller.
Please do again a right-click onto the yellow flagged device and post the DeviceID (DEV_XXXX) of it. You will get it by choosing the options "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs".

[roberto]

@Fernando

Thanks for the email, and for the interest you’re taking. I’ll reply with the info you requested as soon as I’ve installed the StarTech card in my machine again (I removed it when I ceased making any progress and was close to giving up).

But that won’t be before tomorrow now.

[roberto]

@Fernando
Here’s a screenshot showing what you wanted to know.
Hope it helps

[Fernando]

@roberto :
AFAIK the only INF file, which definitively supports the Intel DeviceID DEV_1901, is the SkylakeSystem.inf, which you obviously have already installed and stored as oem71.inf.
Attached is the latest version 10.1.1.38 of it.

Intel Chipset INF for SkyLake systems.rar (9.4 KB)

[roberto]

@Fernando

Just checked, and that’s the version number of the .inf file already in the Windows directory.

So that seems to exhaust all the possibilities.

I’m left a bit puzzled however as to how this situation can come about because in theory it shouldn’t be happening. I imagine it has to do with the care/skill with which the oem’s programmers wrote the driver for this controller-chip, and that they’ve sliipped-up somewhere along the way. Or might it be that the driver is OK but that some glitch in Windows 10 is causing it to faill to interact successfully with this driver?

Either way it leaves me stranded, with a device I can’t use.

I’m very grateful for your efforts to solve it.

[Fernando]

@roberto

Either way it leaves me stranded, with a device I can’t use.

If you open the related INF file by using Notepad, you will find something interesting regarding the supported HardwareIDs:
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1900Desc%=Needs_NO_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1900
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901Desc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1905Desc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1905
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1909Desc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1909
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_190FDesc%=Needs_NO_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_190F
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1910Desc%=Needs_NO_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1910
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_191FDesc%=Needs_NO_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_191F

According to the above entries the listed devices with the DeviceIDs DEV_1901 (yours), DEV_1905 and DEV_1909 definitively need a separate real PCI driver (= *.SYS file), whereas the devices with the DeviceIDs DEV_1900, DEV_190F, DEV_1910 and DEV_191F don’t.
My advice: Ask the manufacturer of your PCI card for the required driver.

[Lagoon]

Hello,
I have a huge problem with the GA-Z77X-UD3H, Windows 10 64 Bit and the USB 3.0 ports.
External hdds aren’t working properly if I connect them to the USB 2.0 port they work fine.

Can you help me how to fix this problem, I guess I have to replace the Intel USB and the VIA USB driver?

Attached a screenshot of my USB-Controller it’s in German but should be okay
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[Matth79]

@roberto

@Fernando
Here’s a screenshot showing what you wanted to know.
Hope it helps

Is it the PCI to PCI giving the problem?

Searching PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901 on Microsoft Update Catalog gives a choice of 10.1.1.38 or 10.1.2.80 drivers, it may be worth trying the "full" 10.1.2.80 from Station-Drivers
http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php…id=2441&lang=en

Windows can be a bit lax in finding those drivers on the Catalog, they don’t always turn up in automatic search

[Fernando]

@Lagoon :
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

@Lagoon

Can you help me how to fix this problem, I guess I have to replace the Intel USB and the VIA USB driver?

Yes, this is what I recommend to do.
Note: When you are going to install the Intel USB 3.0 drivers, you have to take my mod+signed ones. Win10 will not accept the original Intel USB 3.0 drivers.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)


@Matth79 :
Thanks for your advice, but I doubt, that it will help roberto.
Reasons:
1. Both Intel Chipset Device INF files v10.1.1.38 and v10.1.2.80 are simple text files and no drivers.
2. The entries of both INF files regarding the DEV_1901 device are identical:

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%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901Desc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901
 

[Lagoon]

@Fernando

Hello,

I did as you told me, but unfortunately it’s not working.
Now its not been able to install the drivers for my external USB 2.0 Hub what did go wrong?

Best regards
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[Fernando]

@Lagoon

Now its not been able to install the drivers for my external USB 2.0 Hub what did go wrong?

Which special USB 2.0 device (manufacturer/model) do have connected?
Have you tried to let Windows Update search for a suitable driver for that device?

[Lagoon]

@ Fernando

Somehow its working now.
I switched back to the old drivers, except I kept your PCI bus driver.
Is it okay to do so. Or is better to replace them with the “original” one as well?

And is it possible to update the driver for the Intel Host controllers, in the past I had often uninstall them cause something didn’t work?
Does the Intel Update from the Giagabyte site does any good?

I know a lot of questions.
Yours





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[Fernando]

@Lagoon

Somehow its working now.

That is fine.

I switched back to the old drivers, except I kept your PCI bus driver.

What do you mean with "my" PCI bus driver?

Or is better to replace them with the "original" one as well?

If you should mean the 3 Intel USB 3.0 drivers (for the Controller, the Hub devices and the device named "PCI Express Root Complex", you should either install them all or none of them.

And is it possible to update the driver for the Intel Host controllers, in the past I had often uninstall them cause something didn’t work?

It is possible to update the Intel USB 3.0 drivers, but you have to take the mod+signed ones, because Win8 and Win10 are natively not supported by the original Intel USB 3.0 drivers.

Does the Intel Update from the Giagabyte site does any good?

I doubt, that this tool will let you know about new Intel USB 3.0 drivers, because your OS is natively not supported by them. Furthermore I do not recommend to nstall such program, which is permanently running in the background and drops your performance. If you join our Forum or Station-Drivers each week, you will get much earlier the informations about the newest drivers, even about those, which never will be published at the manufacturer’s download pages.

[Lagoon]

"What do you mean with "my" PCI bus driver?"

I meant that this one was your modified driver .
(64bit Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.0.32 mod+signed by Fernando)

Thank you very much for four answers.

[Fernando]

@Lagoon

I meant that this one was your modified driver (64bit Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.0.32 mod+signed by Fernando).

Ok, you can leave these 3 mod+signed Intel USB 3.0 drivers installed.

[Matth79]

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #690

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The entries of both INF files regarding the DEV_1901 device are identical:

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%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901Desc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1901
 

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If I'm interpreting the file correctly, it's telling it to implement PCI_DRV using the machine.inf entries, so the actual driver will come from there - PCI.SYS ... now if it's already found that by generic id, it won't change anything except the name, but if it hasn't already selected PCI.SYS as the driver, it might improve things

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded part of the fully quoted post removed (to save space within this thread)

[Lagoon]

@ Fernando:
unfortunately the problem is not solved, today again the same issue
I updated all the Intel USB 3.0 drivers did not help.

Could it be the C216 Controllers?
I tried to update them
Intel RST/RSTe Drivers (newest: v15.2.2.1030 WHQL/v4.5.6.1004 WHQL)
But Windows said it’s not compatible.

Did anybody had the same problem with the GA-Z77X-UD3H (rev. 1.0) and Windows 10 64 Bit and
solved it?
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[Fernando]

@Lagoon :
The Intel RST/RSTe drivers do support the Intel SATA Controllers, if they are running in AHCI or RAID mode, but have nothing to do with the USB devices.
That is the reason why you got the message, that the Intel RST/RSTe drivers are not compatible.