Readyboost

i have usb 2.0 as well, but when vista installed it kicked it back to 1.5
I use an external drive for temp files and wanted to do the same thing.
Whenever i turn the drive on now it says I should upgrade to usb 2.0 to make
readyboost work properly.

I tried installing the drivers for my board "that worked in XP" but it won't
allow the install saying wrong windows version.
lol, guess I am screwed for my usb now.


running:
dual processor 1.8 athlons with 4 gig ram - geforce 5700 with 256 megs ram -
Highpoint raid with 7 hard drives and one dvd burner



"Al C" <AlC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
> readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is plugged
> into
> an unsuppoerted interface'
> It is definately a USB2.0 port.
> Can anyone offer any advice please?

I have 4 onboard USB ports and a PCI hub with an extra 4. I have tried all
eight, each one with the same message about the interface being unsupported!

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Try plugging it into one of the USB ports on the motherboard.
>
> "Al C" <AlC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:17F8B8CB-77D0-4366-98C6-626AE5F1C75F@microsoft.com...

> >I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
> > readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is plugged
> > into
> > an unsuppoerted interface'
> > It is definately a USB2.0 port.
> > Can anyone offer any advice please?

>
>
>

Hmmm... don't really have an answer for you... I've got 4 PC's running
Vista, each with USB 2.0 and I've never seen that error msg when either
plugging in a thumb drive or an external hard drive or using a thumb drive
for ReadyBoost. Know that's not much help... not sure what to tell ya other
than it works here.

Lang

"Al C" <AlC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17F8B8CB-77D0-4366-98C6-626AE5F1C75F@microsoft.com...

>I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
> readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is plugged
> into
> an unsuppoerted interface'
> It is definately a USB2.0 port.
> Can anyone offer any advice please?

I basically have the same setup, and mine got the same message from the PCI
card, but works fine from the motherboard USB, so I have no suggestions.
Good luck.


"Al C" <AlC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 4 onboard USB ports and a PCI hub with an extra 4. I have tried all
> eight, each one with the same message about the interface being
> unsupported!
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>

>> Try plugging it into one of the USB ports on the motherboard.
>>
>> "Al C" <AlC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:17F8B8CB-77D0-4366-98C6-626AE5F1C75F@microsoft.com...

>> >I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
>> > readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is
>> > plugged
>> > into
>> > an unsuppoerted interface'
>> > It is definately a USB2.0 port.
>> > Can anyone offer any advice please?

>>
>>
>>

I had the same issue with a SanDisk Cruszer 2GB; it will not work. I have a
Sony Micro Vault that work like a champ. On my last visit to Micro Center I
picked up a $15 no-name 1GB drive that also works.

I think it has something to do with the internal memory controller in the
drive; if performance isn’t fast enough Vista won’t use it.

"Al C" wrote:

> I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
> readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is plugged into
> an unsuppoerted interface'
> It is definately a USB2.0 port.
> Can anyone offer any advice please?

I had the same problem with a SanDisk Crusier 512MB, it kept saying that it
was not plugged into a USB 2.0 port, even though I knew that the port was USB
2.0. I formatted the drive to FAT32 (making sure I had got all my info off
and that fixed the problem.

"Al C" wrote:

> I have just prchased a sandisk cruzer mini 2Gb and hoped to use it with
> readyboost. However i am getting an error stating 'The device is plugged into
> an unsuppoerted interface'
> It is definately a USB2.0 port.
> Can anyone offer any advice please?

Hello,

Does anyone know of a realy realy fast flash memory device that can just
live in my PCMCIA slot?

eg, not USB.

I presume PCMCIA is fast enough for ReadyBoost

Steve

These links should help you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/arch...02/615199.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

Have a nice day.

--
Kristan Kenney
Windows Live Butterfly

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"Steve Drake" <steve@NOSPAM_SS_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of a realy realy fast flash memory device that can just
> live in my PCMCIA slot?
>
> eg, not USB.
>
> I presume PCMCIA is fast enough for ReadyBoost
>
> Steve