Equip VIA User manual

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Manual
VIA USB 2.0 PCI-Card
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1.0 Introduction
Instantly add USB peripherals to your PC. Never open your computer case again after you
have your USB Port PCI) card installed and say good-bye to confusing cables.
The USB Port Universal Serial Bus) allows you to instantly connect USB devices to your
computer. The USB Port will allow you to attach 2/3/4 USB devices instantly.
You never have to worry about running out of slots in your computer or those confusing IRQs
again. You can also Hot Swap your USB devices. What does this mean? You never have
to power down your PC to install hardware again. Gamers can switch joysticks on the fly.
Welcome to the USB Revolution!
Index
1.0 Introduction 2
2.0 eatures 3
3.0 System Requirements 3
4.0 Driver Limitations 3
5.0 Software Insatallation 4
5.1 Windows XP 4
5.2 Windows 2000 6
5.3 Windows ME 7
5.4 Windows 98/98 SE 8

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2.0 eatures
This is a true 32-bit PCI-Bus USB card. It supports the following I/O features:
 2/3/4 USB ports root hub and two/three/four down stream function ports)
 Auto detect speeds and connections of devices
 Integrated physical layer transceivers
 Normal and low power operating modes
 Fully Plug and Play compatible
 OHCI Open Host Controller Interface) specification V2.0 register compatible
 USB specification V.1.0 compatible
3.0 System Requirements
This setup program will install the driver for VIA USB 2.0 Host Controller. Before you start
to run the setup program, please make sure your computer is an IBM PC-compatible system.
This driver can be used either the following operating systems:
 Windows98
 Windows98 Second Edition.
 Windows Millennium.
 Windows 2000.
 Windows XP.
4.0 Driver Limitation
Current limitations of the driver are: Composite devices and Hi-Speed Isochronous Transfers
are currently not supported.
Please visit VIA web site www.via.com.tw to get the latest driver.

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5.0 Software Installation
NOTE: The drivers for this card are compressed on the included CD using Winzip .
4. Press Continue Anyway.
5. Press Next.
5.1 Windows XP
1. Please make sure this PCI card has been installed on
your system correctly. Open the Device Manager and
check if there is a Universal Serial Bus USB) Controller
in Other devices.
2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and execute
the setup program by double clicking on the setup.exe
file. the path is \USB\USB2.0-VIA)
3. Select Install USB 2.0 Driver and press Next.

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7. Then press Finish.
6. Press Continue Anyway. 8. Open Device Manager and check if your device works.
NOTE:
If there is a yellow exclamation mark on VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced
Host Controller or USB 2.0 Root Hub Device, please remove
this item from the Device Manager by clicking the Uninstall
button and click Refresh to re-install this driver again.

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5.2 Windows 2000
4. Press Finish
NOTE:
This will restart your system. Please remember to close other
programs before you click Finish button.
5. After restarting your system, please check if your device works.
NOTE:
If there is a yellow exclamation mark on VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced
Host Controller or USB 2.0 Root Hub Device, please remove
this item from the Device Manager by clicking the Uninstall
button and click Refresh to re-install this driver again.
1. Please make sure this PCI card has been installed on
your system correctly. Open the Device Manager and
check if there is a Universal Serial Bus USB) Controller
in Other devices.
2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and execute
the setup program by double clicking on the setup.exe
file. the path is \USB\USB2.0-VIA)
3. Select Install USB 2.0 Driver and press Next.

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5.3 Windows ME
4. Press Finish
NOTE:
This will restart your system. Please remember to close other
programs before you click Finish button.
5. After restarting your system, please check if your device works.
NOTE:
If there is a yellow exclamation mark on VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced
Host Controller or USB 2.0 Root Hub Device, please remove
this item from the Device Manager by clicking the Uninstall
button and click Refresh to re-install this driver again.
The green question mark on VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host
Controller item is not an error message. Please ignore it.
1. Please make sure this PCI card has been installed on
your system correctly. Open the Device Manager and
check if there is a yellow exclamation mark on one of
the VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
item.
2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and execute
the setup program by double clicking on the setup.exe
file. the path is \USB\USB2.0-VIA)
3. Select Install USB 2.0 Driver and press Next.

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5.4 Windows 98/98 SE
1. Please make sure this PCI card has been installed on
your system correctly. Open the Device Manager and
check if there is a Universal Serial Bus USB) Controller
in Other devices.
2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and execute
the setup program by double clicking on the setup.exe
file. the path is \USB\USB2.0-VIA)
3. Select Install USB 2.0 Driver and press Next.
4. Press Finish
NOTE:
This will restart your system. Please remember to close other
programs before you click Finish button.
5. After restarting your system, please check if your device works.
NOTE:
If there is a yellow exclamation mark on VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced
Host Controller or USB 2.0 Root Hub Device, please remove
this item from the Device Manager by clicking the Uninstall
button and click Refresh to re-install this driver again.