Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 968134" data-attributes="member: 325666">Finally got internal usb connection sorted ..Actually ..x 2Having tested and modded quite a few unsuccessfully ...I now have a worker.Turns out USB 1.0 simply wont work with SDR ..But I WAS surprised when USB 2.0 failed also ..After much digging the refusal of SDRplay to even be recognised by USB 2.0 on a pci card turned out to be a chipset incompatibility..The reason for this incompatibility is that VIA based chipsets of the type VT6212 on close variants are NOT fully complant with usb 2.0 protocol ...using bulk transfer and not Isochronous transfer ..Thus bandwidth is severly restricted ..and thus the SDRplayer refuses to even be recognised..full story here :-<a href="http://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=673" target="_blank">SDRplay incompatibility with usb 2 pci card ? - SDRplay Community Forum</a>So I eventually got my hands on a used NEC chipset based pci card (usb 2.0) cheaply ...but not a low profile one..It arrived this morning and as expected would not fit ..even with the backplate removed..It's just too tall ..Out came the junior hacksaw and the topmost usb socket sacrificed..There are 5 ports in total ..One internal ..and 4 to the rear ..now 3 to the rear ...but the only low profile backplate I have is from a 2 port card ..So the 3rd from the bottom usb port socket was removed reversed and repositioned to point inwards ..I now have 4 ports available ..2 of which point outwards ..and 2 internal ...and now the 2 port low profile back plate will fit ..I'm attaching photos of the modded pci card..All this to make a neater job..lolbut I guess thats the fun of it..rgdsVS[ATTACH=full]92309[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]92310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]92311[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

Verification