Usb 3.0 host controller MSI gaming 970 gaming board

I have a GA-970A-UD3P with a VIA VL805 USB3 controller in it. Windows 10 uses a default driver that works fine for me, but I have used the VIA driver that gigabyte offers before to see if it improved performance (it did not, but it worked fine) and it showed the same HUB with "!" behavior. It always installs the main driver (xhcdrv.inf) then shows a "!" over the VIA HUB and I have to point that to the driver folder as well and then it installs the second part (ViaHub3.inf). It's a 2 part install for me.

I'm not sure if you have the VL805 (MSI shows VL806 if I looked at the right board version, it uses the same driver, shows up under WIN7x64 section on MSI's site but Gigabyte shows the same driver for WIN10x64 too), but I'm attaching that driver if you want to try it on yours. I pulled just the driver out of the 11.3 megabyte VIA 4.90a EXE installer package because it installs extra, useless crap and fails to install the HUB driver anyway (did the same on WIN7 and 10). It is not modified in any way, just that it has to be installed with Device Manager rather than clicking an EXE.

"VIA USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft)"
point that to "xhcdrv.inf"
"USB Root Hub (USB 3.0)"
point that to "ViaHub3.inf"

By "point that to", I mean device manager, update driver, "browse my computer for driver software" and navigate to where the driver INF file is.

VIA USB3 4.90a 6.1.7600.4903.rar Newer drivers in the next post, but I found them a bit slower, so I'll leave these here too, just in case.

After that it looks like this:

boombastik said:

dont use the above drivers are very old.

True, but they work. I tried the newer ones and they were quite a bit slower for me. 48-52 MB/s vs 72-80 MB/s with Windows default driver. That said, I am not familiar with the source of the newer version, but they do seem legit, installed fine, and worked well enough, maybe better for the OP.

Here's another vote for Fernando/Dieter's excellent drivers at Win-RAID.com. I've used them on many of my systems with good results, and have recommended them here at TenForums to many other users who've fared well with those drivers, too.
HTH,
--Ed--

Boombastic's newer drivers seem to be the best bet if the Windows 10 built in version won't work for you (they do for me). And some notes from my tinkering:

1. When switching these drivers Windows wants Windows Update service running (I disable it and got errors until turning it on).
2. When switching from my older to the newer, or vice versa, you need to uninstall the device(s) (controller and hub) and tick the box for "delete driver" and reboot or Windows tries to ram the other one back in, or one driver version for the Controller and another for the Hub and you get the "!" on it. Ugh. Finicky stuff.