Question Addonics PCI USB 3.0 card

[Dennis Hagans]

Hey, Guys, I am stuck,

this is my card. https://www.priceblaze.com/ad2u3pci...yDPdRxHq82HwRUkVyrQbluZcCpvnNv1hoCI0EQAvD_BwE

I bought this Addonics 2 port card to give my Dell Precision 530 mt Dual Xeon 3.0 GHz server USB 3.0, I already have a 4 port USB 2.0 card in it.

after the specific drivers from the cd would not install the card correctly I downloaded some from their site.

order of install this one first NECEL-USB3-Host-Driver-10170-setup

this one second "AD2U3PCI-720202 Setup-30200"

these work just fine, my device manager is happy and sees the USB 3.0 card, two instances of it in fact.

but there is a software utility USB 3.0 controller utility that was installed with the drivers, and it refuses to run saying that the host controller is not found, also when I plug my USB 3.0 SanDisk Cruzer into the card it does not come up.

I sent this company a request for assistance and have a ticket number but so far almost a week later no response from them.

https://www.addonics.com/support/ticketid/retrieve.asp

they have a valid ticket id but want a valid email or phone number I have typed in both and it just resets asking for the same info

the device manager is happy I have no issues showing up, no disabled hardware with the yellow triangle and exclamation point in the center, showing any device as not working.

 

[Calvin7]

Precision 530, 2001, Dual Socket 603

That is year 2001, what OS system?

You realize that any data speeds would be limited by the bandwidth of the PCI slot.
Peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s (133 Megabytes per second) for PCI slot.
USB 3.0 speed is 5 Gbit/s = 625 Megabytes per second

 

[Dennis Hagans]

I am dual booting between window XP pro and Windows 7 Pro

No, I did not realize that the PCI slot would be a bottleneck, it does have 2 64 bit PCI slots but finding any kind of card for those slots would probably be iffy at best.

The now-aging USB 2.0 standard can theoretically transfer data at a very high 480 megabits per second (mbps), or 60 megabytes per second (MBps).

Peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s (133 Megabytes per second) for PCI slot.

ok so if the 3.0 could xfer even close to 133 Megabytes per second, that is still double what the USB 2.0 card can do...

I just wanted to make this system as up to date as I could, basically when all is said and done for this system, there would be no more upgrades because I would have them at the best they can be.

when I got it, it was dual 2.0 GHz Xeon CPUs, I bought the 3.0 CPUs on e-bay and put them in, it now also has a His iceq AGP 1GB memory video card, unfortunately, my SCSI drives were not in the system and were stolen so it is running a couple of seagate 250 GB IDE drives, I am looking for a PCI 64-bit Sata card and have found a couple on e-bay that should work nicely so it will have raid.

if I could find a PCI 64-bit USB 3.0 card that would be the icing on the cake.

it is a dual 3.0 GHz Xeon Server, it is old but it still has some power to it, and my hope is to turn it into an audio/video machine