2017 Hardware Thread

specialkone said:

Is the driver/ driver version you are looking for here?

Attachment 130646

USB 3.0/3.1 Drivers (original and modded)

Mine is made by Intel, don't think those are the right drivers.

Dude said:

Check the disc that came with your MB Mike

I checked my disc Doug, and they were on there, in the Intel Usb folder But, Windows blocks the install, because they are older drivers. Tried it twice. Could try safe mode I suppose....

OldMike65 said:

I checked my disc Doug, and they were on there, in the Intel Usb folder But, Windows blocks the install, because they are older drivers. Tried it twice. Could try safe mode I suppose....

Yeah, safe mode should work. There are post in here somewhere how to override driver installs

Dude said:

Yeah, safe mode should work. There are post in here somewhere how to override driver installs

Yup disconnect from the internet too if I remember....turn off MS updates....etc....

Well I give up for now, no matter what I've tried Windows blocks it. It is almost 2 years old.

Just a comment, Mike, but when I was dealing with the Alienware and the D Link USB wifi dongle, Windows would install the chipset driver, not the D link driver. Using the executable with the D Link driver never worked.

What I had to do was extract the D Link driver, go to device manager/ have disk and point to the inf file that came with the extracted driver package. After that the d link driver installed and didn't get changed.

specialkone said:

That's a lot of Canadian dollars (real money to me). This is NCIX Canada. When I bought my FTW 1080 they had the lowest Canadian price of the retailers, at the time over $200 less than this.

Totally insane for a pensioner running an FTW 1080 to be looking at this. Yes, I'm talking to myself.

At least you are getting pension, my cheques are 2 weeks overdue. Is there some postal strike or something ?

specialkone said:

Count Mike - my company pension and Quebec pension and in a year federal. All handled/to be handled (federal) the same. I have two words for you.

DIRECT DEPOSIT

As Doorules well knows, our postal workers go on strike almost every couple of years.

Wish I could but can't do it from here, some stupid never finished agreement between countries. Everything else is working, no double taxation and stuff like that but direct deposit no.

specialkone said:

That's a lot of Canadian dollars (real money to me). This is NCIX Canada. When I bought my FTW 1080 they had the lowest Canadian price of the retailers, at the time over $200 less than this.

Totally insane for a pensioner running an FTW 1080 to be looking at this. Yes, I'm talking to myself.

That's the normal exchange rate from what we are paying.