@DWolfman

I hate to do this to you but I've had a victory in this department. At the AUG auction I posted about in news section I managed to scrap an NEC USB2 card from a PC. And a day later had it installed it and in testing.

It almost was a day to install as a 5 minute job seemed to linger for more like 5 hours! The first problem was that the VIA USB2 card it replaced was so much smaller and fit neatly in the space.The main PCB on the VIA is about an inch high and this was good as above it I had a Sii 0680 IDE controller where the IDE ports were put on the side which is a stupid place. Most I've seen have it on the back toward the drives. Somehow I ended up with a "Stupid 0680". So my cables has to be slighty stretched to meet demand and the VIA card gave them space. The NEC card wasn't so friendly.

I ended up removing my sound card from the bottom and putting it below the IDE card as it had shorter solder joints than the NEC and was the most flat. Given my IDE cables would be squeezed against it. So I got that sorted and then hit a snag. I couldn't screw it in place. The backplate blocked the screwhole by about a mm. I tried to bend it slighty and even loosen the screws on the PCB to move it but it still blocked it! I'd never had so much trouble trying to fit a PCI card in. Usualy it is the other end slotting next to the mobo and case. I didn't want to leave it without a screw but wanted it solid in place. I've always thought PCI was a bad design if things don't fit without bending plates or otherwise modifying cards and now it is confirmed. I ended up taking the plate outside and had to file the end down so the screw could fit in place! Ridiculous!

Anyway so my A1 PCI space was slightly remixed. In AGP top slot I have a 9200SE. [66Mhz PCI left blanlk.] The three PCI cards below are 0680, SB5.1 Live and NEC. All are working fine as I type. No problems so far. I even removed my old USB easy fix and resistors I had on one end of my internal mobo USB cable, inside my card reader as it happened. So then I took the cable from my card reader, put an adaptor on the end to goto the internal USB2 port on the card and one on the outside. Now I have three external USB ports, one front USB port and a multi card reader, all running at USB2 speeds.

At first I was only geting USB1.1 speed, around 900KB/s. Then I realised I'd disabled EHCI as USB2 on OS4 was broken on the VIA. So I then enabled it, hard rebooted and redid the test. I then was getting around 9MB/s transfer rate! Hooray! Used DiskMonTools for test. I love my DMT.

Some PCI cartd info for comparison:

Device #12:
Vendor: 0x1102 (Creative Labs)
Device: 0x0002 (SB Live! EMU10k1)
Class code: 0x040100
RevisionID: 0x0A
Interrupt: Line 0x0A, Pin 0x01
Subsystem Vendor: 0x1102
Subsystem ID: 0x8065
Resource range #0 (IO)
Base address: 0x00802440
Physical address: 0x00802440
Size: 0x00000020

Device #13:
Vendor: 0x1102 (Creative Labs)
Device: 0x7002 (SB Live! Game Port)
Class code: 0x098000
RevisionID: 0x0A
Interrupt: Line 0x00, Pin 0x00
Subsystem Vendor: 0x1102
Subsystem ID: 0x0020
Resource range #0 (IO)
Base address: 0x00802460
Physical address: 0x00802460
Size: 0x00000008


Device #14:
Vendor: 0x1033 (NEC Corporation)
Device: 0x0035 (OHCI USB Controller)
Class code: 0x0C0310
RevisionID: 0x43
Interrupt: Line 0x0B, Pin 0x01
Subsystem Vendor: 0x3083
Subsystem ID: 0x0035
Resource range #0 (MEMORY)
Base address: 0x98101000
Physical address: 0x98101000
Size: 0x00001000

Device #15:
Vendor: 0x1033 (NEC Corporation)
Device: 0x0035 (OHCI USB Controller)
Class code: 0x0C0310
RevisionID: 0x43
Interrupt: Line 0x07, Pin 0x02
Subsystem Vendor: 0x3083
Subsystem ID: 0x0035
Resource range #0 (MEMORY)
Base address: 0x98102000
Physical address: 0x98102000
Size: 0x00001000

Device #16:
Vendor: 0x1033 (NEC Corporation)
Device: 0x00E0 (uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller)
Class code: 0x0C0320
RevisionID: 0x04
Interrupt: Line 0x09, Pin 0x03
Subsystem Vendor: 0x3083
Subsystem ID: 0x00E0
Resource range #0 (MEMORY)
Base address: 0x98103000
Physical address: 0x98103000
Size: 0x00000100

Last edited by Hypex on 20-Aug-2014 at 04:49 PM.

@Hypex

Great! Sounds like you had as much "fun" as I did, though it took a bit longer for you.

Anyway, just came back after noticing my A1 has been up for almost 6 days straight now, with the USB2 card working fine, though not with the KVM hooked up to it. For some reason it still gets crazy when that is plugged in. Sure would be nice if I could use that with it.

Though I have an idea. The KVM usually runs in "emulation" mode for the keyboard and mouse, essentially pretending to me a mouse and keyboard even if the KVM has focus on another computer. In order to get the scroll wheel on the mouse to work right, I had to switch off the mouse emulation and just let it run in passthrough mode. It has that option also for the keyboard. I'm thinking of switching that and trying it again to see if that works better.

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Heh, reviving my old thread once more.

It's definitely held up well, up to 27 days and 1 hour uptime so far. Posting this with OWB on it, too.

Though it's still on the SB128 sound card. Haven't had a chance to go get the other sound card yet.

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