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Product Review Summary: What +1 means I was hoping +1 meant I could plug my front-USB ports into this instead of the motherboard and get a speed upgrade. But the internal +1 USB is a standard USB external connector, just not accessible from the outside. This would be useful to someone who wanted a USB device inside his computer for whatever reason.
On to the regular review. I bought this card because my built-in USB controller was not playing nice with my new USB KVM switch under Windows (under Linux there was no problem but this is my gaming system so I need Windows). So far I have used the card for keyboard and mouse connections, no high-speed stuff.
Installation was straightforward. The old BIOS did not recognize the new card as PnP, so I had to plug in another KB somewhere else for the computer to boot. Windows recognized it right away.
The bottom line is it solved my problem, so $8 well spent.
Product Review Summary: Works as advertised This PCI USB card works great. It dosen't get much easier. I installed on a windows 7 64-bit machine. Just plug in the card into an open PCI slot, power on the machine, which recognises the card right away and you are set.
Product Review Summary: Works For Some, Not For Others (2)... This review is a tale of 2 USB 5 port PCI cards (a SYBA SD-VIA-5U 5-port card and a Sabrent SBT-ALI5Y 5 Port card) and 3 PCs (An elderly Compaq 5838 w/500MHz AMD, an elderly HP 6465 w/433MHz Celeron, and an ancient fossil kit computer w/166MHz Pentium I).
The SYBA card was puchased along with a SYBA internal 4 port internal hub to be used with the Compaq 5838. The 5838 originally came with 4 USB 1.1 ports that were discovered to be a handicap in some situations.
The Sabrent card was purchased to be used in the fossil. The fossil originally had no USB ports.
Both cards look very simililar. The heart of both cards is a VIA chip.
Neither of the cards would work in the PCs for which they were intended. The PCs would not boot with these cards installed. The boot never got to the point where the operating system begins to load, so it has nothing to do with drivers. (???)
After swapping the cards, the fossil booted OK with the SYBA card, and has been using it since. It turned out that the SYBA hub wouldn't physically fit in the Compaq, but fit just fine in the fossil, and it too now resides in the fossil. The Compaq 5838 would not boot with the Sabrent card either.
The internal port on the SYBA card failed after about a week of use. The internal port was intended to be used with the SYBA 4 port internal hub. Bummer!! The hub has a generous cable, and could be routed externally to one of the external ports of the card. Still this is 7 USB 2.0 ports on an ancient PC that previously had none. It has been being used that way since, but it really would have been nice to have had that internal port working.
The epilogue for this tale is that the card being reviewed here won't work in just any PC, but will work in the right PC. There's no way to tell which will work or which won't work. Unfortunately, the failure of the internal port left me with a cool feeling about the quality of the card. Oh yes, and the Compaq 5838? Just on a hunch, a SYBA SD-NECU2-5E1 6 port card was purchased to try in the Compaq, and it worked great. The heart of this card is a NEC chip instead of the VIA chip.
Product Review Summary: Good expansion card, well worth the money spent Just gave my old system some more breathing space:-). Great boost to systems having the older USB 1.1 ports.
Product Review Summary: Every fast I could not get my magic jack to display caller id on my eight year old compaq computer, after poppin this baby in everything worked fine.. i now get wicked speed with usb flash drives.
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