I'm not sure what the problem is, but here are a couple of things that I
might want to look at if it were me.

If you have only tried the USB ports on the front of the case, try one on
the back that is directly mounted to the motherboard (i.e., it is sticking
out of the I/O plate, not a empty expansion card slot).  There's a chance
that the port on the case does not fully support USB 2.0.

If this doesn't make any difference, you might take a look in the BIOS or
setup options and make sure there isn't an option that sets the ports back
to 1.1 for some compatability reason.  This idea seems to be a bit of
stretch, but it's easy enough to check out.

Good luck,

John Sproule

----- Abbreviated Original Message -----
From: "William Hornkohl" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 7:04 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] usb 2.0


>I bought a HP
> dc 5000 DVD movie writer to transfer some old VCR movies to DVD's. When
> the
> movie writer starts up it reports that it is connected to USB 1.1 and will
> work but it would be a lot better if it was attached to a USB 2.0 port.
> The
> sticker on the front of the computer says that it has high speed USB 2.0
> ports so in its former life with all the HP junk I presume it was. I guess
> I
> somehow lost the 2.0 when I installed XP.

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