Answer» I was wondering if ANYONE can help me. A friends computer is about 10 years old and they have Windows XP running on it. I bought my friend a WEBCAM for christmas but it won't work on their computer. After some research we FOUND out that their usb drive is a 1.1 and the webcam needs it to be a 2.0 in order to work. I bought a 2.0 usb extender hoping that it WOULD make the webcam work but it doesn't. It says that because the original usb drive is a 1.1 then it will convert the extender to a 1.1 even though its a 2.0
So my question is this. How do we make the usb into a 2.0 so that the webcam can work? We already did the usb search and we found out that its not 2.0 compatible so we can't just go and buy a new disk thing to install. Is there another way of getting the computer to have a 2.0 usb drive so that we can get the webcam to work?
Thanks in advance for any help! :-)I don't know what a USB 2.0 extender is, but you PROBABLY want a USB 2.0 PCI card, like this:
Is the Computer Windows 98, ME, 2k, or XP?This is the extender that I was talking about. Not sure of the actual name of it. lol
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The computer has Windows XP running on it.That won't help, it's only a USB hub. WinXP won't require any special drivers for the USB 2.0 card.So is there a way of getting a usb drive on the computer without having to open up the computer and putting in a new card?Short answer....NO.thanks!
so if i buy a card then it should work in the computer, right?
What if the computer doesn't say anything about being usb2 compatible? Or are all computers compatible as long as I insert the correct card?The card will be USB 2.0...and they're compatible with all pc's.Great!! THANKS so much for your help!!!
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