[Outdated] USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers (original and modded)

Important Drivers General: Storage Drivers (AHCI/RAID, NVMe and USB)
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Hello Fernando, thank you for the great work, I am no longer capped at 35 mb/s and now at 290-300 mb/s! THAT IS FANTASTIC! :slight_smile: Now I have one small problem, every 10 seconds I hear the sound that the computer makes when you plug a USB into the USB port, the "dun-dun" and then the "dun-don" sound as if something is plugged in and then out over and over and over again.

It is slowly driving me nuts but I cannot figure out what is causing it to happen, do you know a fix for this?

My info:
Gigabyte X99 Designare
i7-6950X
64GB DDR4
980TI

Thanks again kindly,
Michael

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In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled the sounds from driving me nuts by going into Windows sounds and shutting off the device disconnect and device connect sound

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@MKalman95 :
Hello Michael,
welcome to the Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your feedback!
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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Good morning Fernando, so I reckon there is no current solution to this problem eh?

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You obviously have already found the solution yourself.

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I forget the issue I was having that I found this page and installed your version of the ASMedia drivers. But for some reason, upgrading to the newest drivers causes Windows to crash (bluescreen) upon login.
I have the previous archive still on my system: "pure ASMedia USB 3.0+3.1 Drivers v1.16.47.2 WHQL refreshed.rar"
And tried installing this one here: "pure ASMedia USB 3.0+3.1 Drivers v1.16.49.1 WHQL incl DPInst.rar"
Any idea what might be causing the crashing? Any extra steps I should be taking when upgrading?

EDIT: Motherboard is an Asus Maximus VIII Hero and also have an ORICO 2 Port USB3.1 PCI-E Adapter (PA31-2P) if that helps

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But it’s not a solution The fix that your method proposes does something in the backend that makes the computer search for devices over and over and over and produce this noise.

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No, I don’t have any idea, because I haven’t compiled the drivers. You should better ask ASMedia, the manufacturer of the USB Controllers and their drivers.

Which USB driver did you install and how did you do it?

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I installed this driver,
>“pure” 32bit Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers v5.0.4.43 mod+signed by me (with DPInst option)< (>MIRROR<)

Which did wonders and fixed the transfer speed. After this I found out that the sound drives me nuts and tried to fix this by trying to install >Intel USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers & Software Set v5.0.4.43 WHQL for Win7< (>MIRROR<) overtop the modded drivers, which didn’t change the USB sound and didn’t alter the transfer speeds

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@MKalman95 :
Have you checked, whether all 3 drivers (Controller, Hub and Switch) have been successfully installed?

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How would I check this?

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Open the Device Manager and search for the following devices:
1, “Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller”
2. “Intel(R) USB 3.0 Root Hub”
3. “PCI Bus” or “PCI Express Root Complex”
The first 2 devices should be listed within the section “USB Controllers”, the third within the section “System devices”.
Do a right-click onto the 3 devices and choose the options “Properties” > “Driver”. Then you will see the currently used driver manufacturer and its version.

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USB 3.0 extensible - 5.0.4.43
USB root hub - 5.0.4.43
PCI bus #1 - 6.1.7601.17514
PCI bus #2 - 5.0.4.43

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@MKalman95 :
Thanks!
Try the following:
1. Open the “System devices” section of the Device Manager, right-click onto the listed PCI bus #1, which currently uses the driver v6.1.7601.17514, choose the option “Uninstall device” and confirm it.
2. Reboot and look, what happens.

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I just tried that out of my own curiosity and it didn’t do anything :stuck_out_tongue:

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What does that mean? Is the just uninstalled device listed again?

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It was uninstalled and then it installed itself, but for the time that it was uninstalled it still made the same noise

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@MKalman95 :
Ok, then try to uninstall the other PCI bus, reboot and look, what happens.

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When I uninstall the other one my graphics driver stops and I cannot move the mouse and keyboard, and then once it reinstalls itself I still hear the noise, haha, what a pain in the ass eh?

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@MKalman95 :
Thanks for having done the recommended tests and for your report.
Since I don’t have any idea why the Device Manager of your system lists 2 devices named “PCI bus” (normal is just 1 single “Intel USB Switch Device” named PCI bus), I cannot help you to solve your problem with the latest Intel USB 3.0 drivers.
You may have to decide between the options
a) performance of your USB connected devices or
b) terrible noise of your system.

If you should ever find a better solution (performance+silence), please give us your feedback within this thread.