USB Confusion. Please Help =S

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Under Universal Serial Bus in the device manager, it looks as follows:
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- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller
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Physicaly, the computer has 2 USB ports on the lower backside of the comp, 2
USB ports on the higher backside of the comp, and 2 front panel ports.

Motherboard is KM4M series - VIA KM400 chipset based.

My question is, I have 6 USB ports firstly, whats all the other crap under
Universal Serial Bus? And secondly, I have looked at the motherboard
documentation and I know the 2 front conectors are 2.0, are the backones 2.0
or 1.1 or wat?

Basically: Can i shove some probes in the plugs and get a reading to tell
what version they are or is there some way i can be sure of the version of
the port i test.

Any help on this will be very very appriciated cuz this is pissing me off haha
thanks heaps
Ice
 
A USB 2.0 capable thumb drive is the perfect device for this. XP will
"spank" you if its a USB 1.1 port that you plug the thumb drive in by a
notification.
 
No need to "shove some probes in the plugs and get a reading" -- simply
refer to the manual for your motherboard to determine if your USB
controllers are version 1.1 or version 2.0.

steve
 
The Enhanced controller signifies USB 2.0 compatibilty. The reason for the other listing of the
controllers is for the 1.1 backwards compatibility. I ran into the same thing with a 2.0 PCI card I
installed, got an enhanced and 2 other controllers listed in Device manager. Then I read that the
extra controllers listed was for the backwards to 1.1.
 
It says 500 mA available per port. That should be enuf to tell me its 2.0
right? I did get a funny message saying use USB 2.0 ur crap wil benifit more
but it hasnt been consistent in bringing it up. That first was the last i saw
of it. The motherboard manual tels me the front 2 are 2.0 but says nothing of
the version of the back four... as i said

I dont really understand why i have so many other entries tho. Backwards
1.1? It doesnt make sense to me but it sounds like these ports im using are
2.0 so I think ill quite here and say im happy lol
Thanks for your help everyone
Much Appriciated
Ice
 
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