Greetings good citizens of Off Topic
Techie help needed. I want to rape and pillage your knowledge as I am an imbecile and have tried to do this for about a week with no joy.

Computer crashes (shitty Advent laptop). Reinstall windows and all the other guff. I've got an external dvd drive which hooks up via a usb which won't play now. Comes up with a 'need a hi-speed usb port' window twatty bollocks thing. It worked before. Been looking online to download the software driver, can't find the fucker. Any ideas where a poor fool like me can find this illusive fucking software so I can watch grot films on my laptop again (well, I was actually trying to watch The Incredibles).
(Big Grant, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:26, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

you need a usb 2.0 driver,
It'll be on the manufactures website.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

Sounds like you need some drivers for the motherboard
It sounds as though, without the drivers, windows thinks your USB 2.0 ports are USB 1.X

You should have a disc with the laptop with these drivers else you might be able to download them from advent.
( Captain V, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:35, Reply)

Great!
I'll get cracking with that now. Thanks you lovely Off Topic people, you.
(Big Grant, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:36, Reply)

For stuff like this...
I find it's easier to just go into Device Manager and scan for hardware changes.

9/10 that's told me which drivers are wrong, and then found me them. (Only useful on motherboard stuff, for graphics cards/etc it won't work.)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:52, Reply)

Is it possible
Your machine has both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports, and you've just plugged it into the wrong one?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 12:25, Reply)