USB performing EXTREMELY slow

Since installing Windows 7 all of my USB ports are ridiculously slow, USB 1.0 speeds at best.

I did not have this problem at all with XP, so it is not hardware related.

It is affecting a variety of devices, so no single one is to blame.

I guess on the plus side, my iPhone can almost get a full charge in the ~hour it takes to sync.

Nobody? This is my only problem with Windows 7 and it just may be enough of one for me to switch back.

I think that usb actually freezes my PC occacsionally. I use a USB sound blaster external 24bit and usb keyboard-mouse. I can be watching a movie the sound stops and then moments later complete freeze. I using build 7201 I havent bothered with any newer ones just waiting for RTM hopefully they have fixed it :)

Your system specs are a bit slim.

"OS- Windows 7, duh"

...doesn't help us know which version of Seven you have installed. There are many people using "leaked" versions, not everybody is using 7100rc.

Please fill out your system specs completely.

I believe Zidane2424 is on the right track. Check with your pc/motherboard manufacture for chipset drivers. Vista should work if you can't find Windows 7 specific ones.

OEM said:

Your system specs are a bit slim.

"OS- Windows 7, duh"

...doesn't help us know which version of Seven you have installed. There are many people using "leaked" versions, not everybody is using 7100rc.

Please fill out your system specs completely.

I believe Zidane2424 is on the right track. Check with your pc/motherboard manufacture for chipset drivers. Vista should work if you can't find Windows 7 specific ones.

OS: Windows 7 7100rc
MB: Asrock K8 Upgrade-1689
CPU: Athalon 64 3000+

I have the CD that came with the motherboard but everything I try to install from it fails with some sort of "does not work with this version of windows" error.

iDekz said:

Since installing Windows 7 all of my USB ports are ridiculously slow, USB 1.0 speeds at best.

I did not have this problem at all with XP, so it is not hardware related.

It is affecting a variety of devices, so no single one is to blame.

I guess on the plus side, my iPhone can almost get a full charge in the ~hour it takes to sync.

I've been having USB problems since the first day I installed Vista and these issues have persisted in Windows 7 as well. Getting USB devices to work (properly) on Vista/Win7 has been a gamble for me. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In Windows XP on the other hand, USB works perfectly fine.

I don't know what the problem is, but it's probably driver related. Since I'm running an old nForce2 motherboard, obtaining Vista/Win7 compatible chipset drivers is out of the question; the board is simply too old. Like it or not, I'm just going to have to live with it I guess.

themouse said:

I think that usb actually freezes my PC occacsionally. I use a USB sound blaster external 24bit and usb keyboard-mouse. I can be watching a movie the sound stops and then moments later complete freeze. I using build 7201 I havent bothered with any newer ones just waiting for RTM hopefully they have fixed it

I wouldn't count on it.

iDekz said:

OS: Windows 7 7100rc
MB: Asrock K8 Upgrade-1689
CPU: Athalon 64 3000+

I have the CD that came with the motherboard but everything I try to install from it fails with some sort of "does not work with this version of windows" error.

Go to Asrock Downloads

Enter or Find Your Motherboard and there should be a download for the chipset driver.

Not sure, but it may be called "AMD all in 1 driver" as I looked at couple of download pages, but didn't see any that showed "chipset".
Check the site for more info on downloading chipset drivers and whether its a part of the "AMD all in 1" drivers download if your motherboard download page doesn't have a driver called "chipset".