USB 3/XHCI driver stack for Windows 7

Guys please help. I'm reading this thread but haven't figured this out so is it possible to make this driver work in original Windows 7 installer (boot.wim) or not?

 

I think you just add the KB2864202 update and the driver and it should work. If not, you can use the 8.1 boot.wim, which also has the advantage of supporting ESD files.

 

@FriendlyPP It says it right there in first post:

 

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it looks like your system already has usb 3 drivers so you don't need to install this driver, but if you really still want to install the driver, you can do this with the have disk method

1. click update driver software
2. click browse my computer for driver software (manual driver install)
   
3. click pick from list of drivers button
4. click have disk
5. browse to directory of the generic usb 3 driver for your architecture (x64 or x86), and click on usbxhci.inf
6. there should be a list saying usb xhci compliant host controller

i'm sorry if you know all of this stuff and i gave too much steps
you can now install the driver (if it asks if you want to install the driver from the publisher click yes)

 

Does anyone have a download to the version of this USB 3.0 driver that supported Vista? (pre-final version). The original mediafire link for it is down.

 

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Thank you so much!

 

About the Vista version, it appears to not work with some USB chipsets, even though the same ones work just fine on 7. An example is post-2000 Ryzen chips and boards. I wonder why this is.

 

yeah, you’re kinda right. usb 3 controllers do work on vista, but you’ll get ocassional BSODs especially on modern hardware (i’ve dual booted vista (extended kernel iso with usb 3 drivers) before on 3700x and it wasn’t pleasant because of them)
however, like you said, they work just fine on seven.
no wonder daniel_k dropped support for vista.

 

I don't think that issue is USB 3, but it's interesting that a 3700X causes it.

 

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With the latest version integrated into boot.wim I get this in VMware:

Spoiler

EDIT:
I used NTLite to do the integration, it seems that it changes some files in \sources inside boot.wim.

 

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fyi, my main pc's MB is a a520m ds3h with i think usb 3.1 ports (windows 7 flawlessly works on this)
unfortunately, i'm not going to install windows vista on my system again just to see what causes vista to randomly crash.
in fact, how stable is the usb 3 driver pre-final in vista? it seems that canonkong only tested stability/performance on 7.
i have a lenovo thinkpad t430 that has usb 3.0 ports (intel) so once i install vista on that, i'll investigate (lenovo somehow provides drivers for xp but not vista?? ik there's no official usb 3 driver for vista but so?)

 

I'm not entirely sure why, but the UASP driver causes 7 on my T430 to freeze at a black screen after boot before the login screen. Waiting a bit or unplugging the UASP device gets me to the login screen. I can plug and unplug UASP devices and use them normally after boot without any issues. The weird thing is that this is the only system that gives me this problem, my 8770W and 3770K based systems having Ivy Bridge and Intel USB 3 work just fine and don't have this issue.

 

What is the difference between this method (with back-ported Windows 8 driver) and the method used by WindowsImageTool.exe (GigabyteTool) that integrates USB3, NVME and xHCI drivers?

 

These drivers are Generic, not vendor specific.

 

Are there a generic drivers for NVME too?

 

Generic NVMe Windows 7 driver is already part of latest RollUps. If you want to use them without all updates, then you need KB2864202 + KB2990941-v3 + KB3087873-v2