Hey guys,

I just bought a Vantec NexStar 2 3.5" Drive Enclosure (USB 2.0) and installed a Western Digital 200gb drive in it. It's now a portable harddrive. The drive works flawlessly but my problem is whenever my computer detects the HD, Windows XP says it's a High Speed USB device in a USB 1.1 port. I do know for sure that I did plug the HD into a USB 2.0 port, according to my mobo's instruction manual.

My mobo is a Asus A7V333 with the VIA KT333 chipset. I have a Anthlon 1800+ processor and 512 megs of DDR333 ram. The new HD is plugged in the LOWER USB ports.

So can anybody help me figure out this speed problem?I just updated my BIOS and Chipset Drivers and I STILL have the same problem.You have 2-USB 2.0 ports and 2-USB 1.1 ports.  Look at the user manual.

http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A7V333&Type=All

P. 24 shows USB-EN jumper on pins 1-2 to enable USB 2.0 operation.

P. 30 shows 4 USB ports.  Looking at the back of the motherboard, the 2 on the left (NEXT to the keyboard and mouse ports) are USB 1.1, the 2 on the right are the USB 2.0 ports .
So it's just a problem to have to do with Jumpers? I was aware that the bottom ports were the US2.0 ONES, but I didn't figure you needed to change some jumpers. I'll get back to you guys to see how it worked.Default postion (USB 2.0 enabled) is supposed to be pins 1-2.  Jumper is at very bottom of motherboard.  From left to right pins are:  1-2-3
Place jumper in 1-2 position.Well the jumper was at postion 1-2 when I OPENED up my comp. I changed it over so that it's at position 2-3 so that the comp would become USB2.0 compliant according to the manual. When I rebooted, no USB devices were being recognized by Windows XP. I know that they're working correctly though because I saw that my mouse was still powered.

I therefor set the jump to it's original position of 1-2 and now I can use my USB devices again, but they're still set to USB1.1 mode.

I'M sure that I'm using my USB 2.0 ports.

Any more help?

Thanks a millionContact Asus.Crap...

Thanks anyways.