My PC is a 5 year old machine that only came with USB 1. I purchased a USB
2.0 card (which plugs into a PCI slot) and a 1GIG flash drive. Vista sees
the drive, but when I tried to set it up for readyboost it told me it didn't
meet the specs. Is this because readyboost will not work with card bases USB
2.?

Just to note: The drive works fine when I copy files to it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Len

Read the ExtremeTech article for a primer.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017844,00.asp

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"LenH" wrote in message
...
My PC is a 5 year old machine that only came with USB 1. I purchased a
USB
2.0 card (which plugs into a PCI slot) and a 1GIG flash drive. Vista sees
the drive, but when I tried to set it up for readyboost it told me it
didn't
meet the specs. Is this because readyboost will not work with card bases
USB
2.?

Just to note: The drive works fine when I copy files to it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Len

I read the article and it was very helpful - and my problem may well be with
the specific drive I bought.

But, the articel did not address the PCI card based USB question. So, my
question still is: Will a PCI card based USB 2 work (assuming a supported
flash drive)?

Thanks again for your help

Len

"Richard Urban" wrote:

Read the ExtremeTech article for a primer.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017844,00.asp

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"LenH" wrote in message
...
My PC is a 5 year old machine that only came with USB 1. I purchased a
USB
2.0 card (which plugs into a PCI slot) and a 1GIG flash drive. Vista sees
the drive, but when I tried to set it up for readyboost it told me it
didn't
meet the specs. Is this because readyboost will not work with card bases
USB
2.?

Just to note: The drive works fine when I copy files to it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Len

I personally have not read anywhere that it will.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"LenH" wrote in message
...
I read the article and it was very helpful - and my problem may well be
with
the specific drive I bought.

But, the articel did not address the PCI card based USB question. So, my
question still is: Will a PCI card based USB 2 work (assuming a supported
flash drive)?

Thanks again for your help

Len

"Richard Urban" wrote:

Read the ExtremeTech article for a primer.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2017844,00.asp

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"LenH" wrote in message
...
My PC is a 5 year old machine that only came with USB 1. I purchased a
USB
2.0 card (which plugs into a PCI slot) and a 1GIG flash drive. Vista
sees
the drive, but when I tried to set it up for readyboost it told me it
didn't
meet the specs. Is this because readyboost will not work with card
bases
USB
2.?

Just to note: The drive works fine when I copy files to it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Len