PCIe Port Dead?

bigmck said:

Now that I think about it, I got it from China and it did not come with a CD. I have not had anything plugged into it until recently. I guess it never has worked. :) Well I have ordered a new one and it is coming from the good ole USA. I assume it will have a Driver CD. Thanks,

If you can't find the driver anywhere else, I have found that you may find it if you do a Windows update. Do a scan for Windows updates. Look in the optional updates, and if you see an update for this card, install only that one update. To save time, don't install any other updates, not even the "important" ones.

bigmck said:

Thanks for the input. -- I have purchased a new card that will hopefully have a driver cd when it comes since Win 7 does not support USB 3.0

I hope you are right. A few years ago I purchased a USB3 card, and it came with a driver CD. But the problem was, there were four different drivers on the CD, and the instructions didn't say which driver to use. Rather than trying each driver one at a time, I solved it by searching on the card's VEN and DEV numbers at www.pcidatabase.com. Unfortunately that very useful site went dark a couple of years ago.