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Review on ๐Ÿ’ป Expand the USB Power and Efficiency with FebSmart PCIE 4-Ports Superspeed 5Gbps USB 3.0 Expansion Card for Windows Server XP Vista, 7 8.x 10 (32/64bit) Desktop PC-Build in Self-Powered Technology-No Need Additional Power Supply (FS-U4L-Pro) by Roman Niko

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Sometimes W10 picks up drivers. Sometimes not for this card

I read that W10 detects the hardware and automatically installs the drivers for it. Not so in my case. I think it depends on how old your car is and what equipment you have. My machine is 10 years old but has an early i7 added with at least 8GB of memory. But it turns out it has a working PCIe card slot and fits perfectly. Not my main machine but a side project to see how I can keep it running at a high enough level. A couple of notes: It showed up as an unknown device in Device Manager, not under USB Controllers. I tried installing drivers directly from W10 but without cubes. So I installed the drivers from the CD that came with it. It then required a reboot before finally finding the brand name under "USB Controllers" in Device Manager. Therefore, like me, you may have to ignore the troubleshooting tips in the included guide, as this requires the card to reinstall as intended after a failed detection. In the end: install PCIe on the motherboard, then install the drivers from the CD, then restart the computer, then check in the device manager and make sure it's installed (if your system doesn't recognize it immediately, install the drivers from DM ).

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