Contents:
- Usb Host Controller Driver Windows 10
- Intel(r) Usb 30 Extensible Host Controller Driver For Asus Laptop
- Intel 3.0 Host Controller Driver
- Intel(r) Usb 30 Extensible Host Controller Driver For Asus 7
We know windows 7 will not install the Intel USB 3.0 driver automatically, you need to find it from the Intel official site and download to install it manually. Windows 8 and Windows 10 will install the Intel USB 3.0 xHCI driver with the built-in driver, but it will not always work for some USB 3.0 devices.
Sep 28, 2018 - Intel(R)_USB_3.0_eXtensible_Host_Controller_Driver_5.0.4.43_v2.zip. Note: The Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver is not. Go to device manager, and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers and find the Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller -1.0 (Microsoft). Right-click it and choose Update Driver Software.
If you reinstall the Windows 8.1 or upgrade the system from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and trying to make the USB 3.0 in function, maybe it will be not successes. And maybe you will find there is an unknown device under the other devices tree when you check the device manager. When you right-click it and choose Properties from the context menu, and then locate to the general tab, if it shows a Code 28 error, you can solve this error from here: fix device manager code 28 error. If not, you can go ahead to find a solution.
What is an eXtensible Host Controller Interface?
The abbreviation for eXtensible Host Controller Interface is xHCI, it is a USB interface specification which can support USB 1.0, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices. And it is mainly used for USB 3.0 devices such as USB 3.0 flash drive and USB 3.0 external hard drive. The xHCI can save more power and optimize device performance than the legacy USB host controller OHCI and UHCI. The xHCI can support all USB speeds such as the super speed 5Gbit/s.
How to Download Intel USB 3.0 xHCI Driver for Windows 10 & 8
If you use the Windows 8and Windows 10 system, you will find that Intel did not provide this driver for Windows 8 and Windows 10, you can only find the Windows 7 Intel USB 3.0 xHCI drivers. So if you want to install the USB 3.0 xHCI driver for Windows 10 and 8.1, you can download the Windows 7 version driver.
And you can download the Windows 7 Intel USB 3.0 xHCI driver directly from here:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/46644/Chipset-Software
In this page, you can see there are two Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller drivers. One is Intel 8/9/100 series and Intel C220/C610 chipset family, and another one is Intel 7 series/C216 chipset family. From this page, you can also download and update Intel chipset driver.
You can view the chipset model series from the device manager. Here I will download the Intel 8/9/100 series because I checked the device manager and find my chipset is Intel 8 series.
After you find the chipset model, you can try to download the right USB 3.0 xHCI driver for your system.
How to Install Intel Windows 7 USB 3.0 xHCI driver on Windows 10
1. After you download the zip file, you can right-click it to uncompress it.
Usb Host Controller Driver Windows 10
2. Go to device manager, and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers and find the Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller -1.0 (Microsoft).
Intel(r) Usb 30 Extensible Host Controller Driver For Asus Laptop
3. Right-click it and choose Update Driver Software.
4. Choose Browse my computer for driver software.
5. Choose the below option: Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
6. Choose Have Disk.
Here is a model of USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller, you can also try to install this driver to try.
7. Click Browse. This action will let me choose the iusb3hub.inf file from the uncompressed folder.
8. Choose the iusb3hub.inf file from the Drivers > x64 folder. If you use the 32-bit version, you can choose it from Drivers > x86 folder.
After that, follow the install guideline to install the driver for your Windows 8 and Windows 10 system.
Automatically Download and Update Intel USB 3.0 Driver
If you think manually download and update drivers is very terrible because you need do 9 steps and need to master a lot of skills. You need to identify the chipset model, check your system type (32 bit or 64 bit), etc. So you can use Driver Doctor to help you solve driver issue automatically.
Driver Doctor can scan your all devices including your motherboard devices such as Intel chipset family and other Intel devices and identify if one device had a driver or it needs to update.
After detected, Driver Doctor will provide an easy way to help you download the driver. What you need do is find the driver you want to download and update from the list results.
So you can follow above two ways to solve the Intel USB 3.0 driver not working error on Windows 10 and Windows 8.
Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.My laptop's model number is an ASUS X205TA-SATM0404G. It has 2 USB 2.0 ports, which I have verified by looking up the specs online and also via the software and techniques mentioned here: How to detect if a USB port is 3.0 or 2.0?
So, why is it that in Device Manager, under 'Universal Serial Bus controllers', there is an entry that reads 'Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0100 (Microsoft)'? To give more info, this is the list of entries:
Universal Serial Bus controllers
Generic USB Hub
Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 0100 (Microsoft)
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (xHCI)
My operating system is Windows 8.1, 32 bit.
2 Answers
Some OEMs are indeed stupid and use USB 3.0 controllers, but use USB 2.0 ports (micro USB for example).
To see which speed ports support, run a tool called USB Device Tree Viewer and click on each listed port which has the entry IsUserConnectable (here the user can connect USb devices, some are internally used to attach devices like USB card readers) and look for SupportedUSBProtocols and if the entry Usb300 has a 1 (yes) set. Here not:
So the USB chip supports USB 3.0, but the OEM on the Tabled used micro USB 2.0 port.
Intel Atom processors are a SoC or system on a chip. Which means they put everything including the kitchen sink onboard the CPU. So there is often devices on these smaller netbooks not utilized.
On my ASUS X205TA not only do I have a USB3.0 controller that shows up but in not broken out there is also a hardware com1 port.
If you look at the datasheet for the Intel Atom Z3735F processor in these both devices likely exist on the CPU chip itself, USB for sure and serial port more than likely. Its not that 'OEMs are indeed stupid and use USB 3.0 controllers, but use 2.0 ports.' Its more often that the engineers had a price point and a feature list they were given. They just did not utilize it for cost or space considerations.
Intel is not going to make 8 versions of a CPU with different configurations. Often there are unused devices that are not used integrated into various chips and components in most electronics (not just computers). To make things less confusing unused features usually have a way to be turned off via grounding pins or permanently set firmware/BIOS options. Sometimes manufactures don't do it, can't do it, or planned to have that feature and it gets hastily taken off to save space or cost at the last minute.
One common example of this is most newer i3/i5/i7 Intel processors support up to 4 monitors while many motherboards only have 1 monitor connector. It is becoming more common for motherboards with integrated graphics to have 2 and sometimes 3 monitor connectors but there still are not that many motherboards that break out all 4 display ports.
Intel 3.0 Host Controller Driver
What you're seeing is common with newer hardware at all levels.