Question Upgrading Driver/Firmware for Renesas D720200

[Le_Widget]

Hi guys,

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 (rev. 1.0) motherboard (win7 64) but the USBs have never really worked well. I had a quick online looking for a driver update when I came across other people having issues with Renesas (NEC) USB controllers. Someone said once they upgraded the firmware things were better (this was a post from 10years ago), but I can't locate either firmware or updated driver. I went to the Renesas website but I can't make heads or tails of what files I'm looking at under drivers.

Anyone familiar with this USB controller or know of upgrading firmware for them?

 

[BFG-9000]

You could try the firmware here. The latest drivers are from 2012 so you are probably already using them.

It should show up as Renesas USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0.96 (Microsoft) in device manager because it was a draft-USB 3.0 device and not fully compliant with the final XHCI1.0 specification

 

[Le_Widget]

Thanks for the response, BFG

You could try the firmware here. The latest drivers are from 2012 so you are probably already using them.

I checked out 'station-drivers' but for some reason nothing will download. I ended up having to cope the link location and pasting in the address bar to get the save as window to popup. Ran the program but kept telling me I have something in the USB3 port and to remove. Only have mouse/keyboard in there which I need to install lol, so Ill have to try find a USB > PS2 adapter then give it another shot.

I ended up copying the file name for the USB & putting into Google & found it on 'Softpedia', so I downloaded it there. The driver I originally had was from 2010 (v2.0.30.0), the new one is 2021 (v2.1.39.0) which seemed to install ok.

It should show up as Renesas USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0.96 (Microsoft) in device manager because it was a draft-USB 3.0 device and not fully compliant with the final XHCI1.0 specification

Nothing showed up as Microsoft. I even uninstalled the driver then tried letting windows install it, but it couldn't find any driver for it, even after restarting the PC.