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Originally Posted by under par I'd like to thakyou all for your assistance in educating me.
Can someone tell me how you can tell if you have USB 2 connection?
Hope that isn't a "DOH" type of question.! 
Likewise how can you tell if a PC has Firewire? |
Not a "DOH" question as far as I'm concerned - I had to look it up!
Open up
Control Panel (under
Start>Settings I think, but it depends how you have your system set up), and go into
System. Pick the
Hardware tab, and go into
Device Manager. This gives a list of all the hardware attached to the system (in alphabetical order or thereabouts). If you have Firewire, there should be an entry with
IEEE 1394 (mine says IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers).
USB2.0 is a little more complicated. Near the bottom of the list, will be an entry for
Universal Serial Bus controllers. Expand that entry, and you will probably get a long list of USB "stuff". The important thing is to check whether there's a line that says
Enhanced Host Controller (EHC) rather than
Universal Host Controller (UHC); my machine has 4 UHCs and one EHC and it took me a while to notice that of the 5 entries, one was different from the rest!
The other thing I guess is to check you have an external firewire port (you are pretty much assured to have external USB ports!). The port looks like an very elongated letter 'D' and may either at the front or the back. See the attached image.
More detailed instructions on checking for USB2.0
here.