I read the article and it was very helpful - and my problem may well be with
the specific drive I bought.
But, the articel did not address the PCI card based USB question. So, my
question still is: Will a PCI card based USB 2 work (assuming a supported
flash drive)?
Thanks again for your help
Len
"Richard Urban" wrote:
> Read the ExtremeTech article for a primer.
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017844,00.asp
>
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> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "LenH" <LenH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:906A0010-7CC9-433E-B79D-1B988DDF4380@microsoft.com...
> > My PC is a 5 year old machine that only came with USB 1. I purchased a
> > USB
> > 2.0 card (which plugs into a PCI slot) and a 1GIG flash drive. Vista sees
> > the drive, but when I tried to set it up for readyboost it told me it
> > didn't
> > meet the specs. Is this because readyboost will not work with card bases
> > USB
> > 2.?
> >
> > Just to note: The drive works fine when I copy files to it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> >
> > Len
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>
>