Unfortunately, standards and terminology for USB 3.x are confusing. This article examines why performance experienced by users falls short of Apple’s claim. However, many users have reported performance which doesn’t reach 10 Gb/s for directly connected external disks. I don't blame Dell because i think that they are just caught in the middle of this problem.Apple claims that all its new models using M1 series chips come with Thunderbolt ports which support “USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)”. It is a sad reflection on the computer industry. Microsoft has failed to support USB 3.0 on all devices with their windows 8 and Intel will not release USB 3.0 drivers for windows 8. Why should i have to do that as i have a legitimateĪn internet search shows that this problem is not isolated to my PC but many PC's worldwide have this problem. He suggested that i need to reinstall windows 8 to get the line back in device manager then to apply the procedure.īut that would require me purchasing another windows 8 license.

'intel (R) USB 3.0 extensible host controller driver' in device manager when i tried to upgrade this driver.Īn IT relative of mine spent hours looking at the problem & said that he has used that procedure before on otherĬomputers with success but you need that line in device manager to upgrade drivers to intel drivers. I believe that the procedure as detailed at http:/bit.ly/WHwgmi is the correct procedure but unfortunately i lost the So i am stuck - Intel does not have usb 3.0 driver for windows 8 & if i try the driver for windows 7, i get an error message. I do not know how to get this line back into device manager & this is required in order to peform the procedure. mark when i first purchased the pc but the line disappeared after i updated I did have this entry in device manager (usb controllers) with a yellow exclam. It states that you can force windows to use the intel usb 3.0 host controllerĭrivers instead of the built in stack (windows 8) but this can only be carried out if the pc has 'intel(r) usb 3.0 extensible host controller' under usb controllers The procedure detailed at http:/bit.ly/WHwgmi does not work for me. No doubt due to the fact that i have windows 8 on my pc. 'this computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software'. If i try to install intel (R) usb 3.0 extensible host controller driver for windows 7, i receive the following message. If you are upgrading windows 7 to windows 8, uninstall the intel usb 3.0 extensible host controller driver before installing the upgrade.

Intel is not releasing a specific intel usb 3.0 extensible host controller driver for windows 8. says - windows 8 has a native in-box usb 3.0 driver.

Dell usb 3.0 host controller driver