I bought and installed this card for windows 8. I just upgraded to Windows 8.1 and it no longer works. I moved my external HD to a USB 2 port where it works fine.. The device manager doesn't have any ! next to a device. Startech support didn't have a good driver. Any suggestions? I bought and installed this card for windows 8. I just upgraded to Windows 8.1 and it no longer works. I moved my external HD to a USB 2 port where it works fine.. The device manager doesn't... » Read More I bought and installed this card for windows 8. I just upgraded to Windows 8.1 and it no longer works. I moved my external HD to a USB 2 port where it works fine.. The device manager doesn't have any ! next to a device. Startech support didn't have a good driver. Any suggestions? « Show Less
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Like any other Microsoft operating system we have to endure driver problems for this POS software. The only thing I would suggest is start from scratch. Remove the software, shut down the computer, remove the card, restart the computer. After restart load the software first but with 8.0 or Windows 7 compatibility. Once installed shut down your computer, install the Star Tech card then restart. After restart if it does not recognize the card then all you can do is wait for the drivers from Star Tech for the POS Windows 8.1.
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It is listed to work with Windows 8 so it should work with 8.1. You will need a VGA adapter as both connectors are DVI. The performance of the card is okay, I have Windows 7, but if you want to game I would go higher with a graphics card than this one.
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I just tested this with Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit and it works flawlessly using 1.02 driver. Make sure you install the driver as administrator and you should have no problem. The issues reported by other relates to mechanical issues and not software. Sounds like they may have a defective unit.
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Yes, otherwise the card won't be seen by the OS when you start up. The card has worked flawlessly for me (Win8.1 Pro x64), and the drivers are recent from the company website.
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I didn't need driver's for this item myself as I am using a Linux machine with this item and it worked right out of the box. As far as Windows goes I guess you could check windows update for a driver update for your PCMCIA slot, or the manufacture of your laptop. Other than those two places I am unsure where you might get the driver. Another suggestion would be if you have another computer around you can download the driver from the disc to a thumb drive and load the driver to your laptop that way. I personally have had to do that in the past.
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I'm running it on Win 8 w/o any drivers and it runs just fine with the Win 8 built in drivers. Just plug it in. Remember to use the supplied dual USB plug because you can't get enough power from one USB 2.0 port to run the unit at it maximum performance, otherwise. It needs two USB ports for the extra power. You might try using a USB 3.0 port wince they put out more power, and then only use one usb dongle too. I haven't tried it.
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i gave up on pro and win 7, 8.1 has more features. but it dose work with linux. im sure if it was a driver problem you could contact efomart and they would be happy to help. windows 7 and eight find it by themselves. lol linux use's it's own drivers. i did have a small problem when i set it up it put in 2 devices. i deleated one and it worked just fine. but i use win 8.1 so as far as pro goes i dont know.
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It may work for windows 8, but not for the windows 8.1 and updates to windows 8, I made several attempts to get it to work, followed all suggestions from pawtec.com and nothing made it work. They cited that the windows updates made the usb 3.0 ports "bad" to where they would not recognize devices. They work for other things, so I can't see why it would be that they wouldn't work for this, and think it is a problem with this product and not with windows, but I've seen other people have problems with other usb 3.0 external players of other brands that kept recognizing/unrecognizing, and not playing discs just like this one did to me. If you have windows 8 with no updates, you may be safe using this, anything later, I wouldn't chance it. I'm returning mine for a refund and will try something else.
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I am running windows 8.1 (64) on a laptop. I probably loaded a driver that came with the drive, but I did not download anything. I have had no problems at all except that I would like to operate throught a usb3 hub and that is not reliable.I use the unit heavily and highly recommend it.good luck!
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I have windows 8, and it works perfectly, maybe you could update your usb/chipset drivers...
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You might need to check the Rosewill website and see if they have an updated driver for windows 8.1. If it is not on the website you may need to contact them to see when and if they have that available.
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Yep. I've used it on both Win7 and 8, as well as 8.1. I haven't yet installed the 8.1 Update 1, but I have no reason to think it wouldn't work on that as well. Just make sure to download the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website.
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I couldn't get it to work on Windows 7, or find a driver that would get it to work on that OS. I'm not sure if they fixed it, or if there is an available driver for Windows 8.
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It depends upon which operating system you're using. I have Windows 8.1 with all the latest patches and upgrades and this device isn't recognized...at all! I contacted the vendor and they said they had no plans on upgrading the driver for this device, so, it now sits in a special place in the garage...where all the other junk is stored.
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I had no problem using the small disc on my 1 yr old laptop but am having problems with the driver. Waiting on an answer to my question now. Running win 8.1 and the com port is not recognized. Suspect serial to usb driver issue since all usb devices except this badge works.
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Read my past comments. The usb 3.0 is not reliable and devices simply stop working at times. PCI-E cards are sometines not detected, so 7 comes up without my add-on usb card periodically. That's why I say, the board is ok, but run win8, not 7. What z77 did you show me? This thread is connected to a specific board the GA-Z77X-UD3H. Are we on the same page?
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I have two of these. I have plugged them into three Windows 8.1 computers. All thee recognize the device and download the drivers automatically, but return the error "this device cannot start (code 10)." Thus, I am sad to say, No.I would note that both work just fine on the Windows 7 and Vista machines here.