Re: [OM] OT: USB 3 PCI card claims "not migrated, " but still works

[Wayne Shumaker]

At 6/6/2021 07:32 PM, Peter wrote:

>Summary:Â  The old Transcend 2-port USB 3 PCIe card in my PC died this past 
>week. It worked fine for years. I replaced it with a FebSmart 2-port card.  
>The replacement appears to work fine. But Device Manager says that it's "not 
>migrated due to to a partial or ambiguous match."Â  Should I be worried?
>
>Details:Â  I just installed a "FebSmart" FS-U2-Pro USB 3.0 PCIe card, $13 from 
>Amazon.  My computer is a Dell Optiplex 980, 8 GB memory, 450 GB SSD system 
>drive, 2000 GB data drive, Windows 10 Professional x64.  The Optiplex 980 is 
>not officially compatible with Win10, but many 980 owners have successfully 
>upgraded.  Mine has been happily running Win10 since last year.  I use USB 3 
>to back up my computer, and to download files from my camera SD cards.
>
>I keep getting the error "Device not migrated" in the Device Manager entries 
>for the Renesas USB 3.0 Host Controller and Hub. Despite the error, the USB 
>card appears to work correctly. I can use it with my Seagate portable hard 
>drive (for backups), a SDI card reader, and various flash drives.  Speeds 
>appear comparable with the old card. A 2GB copy of RAW camera files from a 
>card reader to my hard drive, and from the hard drive to my backup USB drive 
>all went flawlessly, and bit compares of all these files showed no errors.
>
>The FebSmart card was supplied with a driver dated 2011(!).  The 
>manufacturer's web site has the exact same driver. Windows loads very recent 
>Microsoft drivers (late 2020 and 2021).  I have tried uninstalling and 
>reinstalling both drivers, and I get the same result. I tried the remedies 
>mentioned in various Web articles.  No help. I contacted the manufacturer and 
>got the following reply:
>
>"Hello,I suggest you relaod System,for brand PCs some times it have some 
>limitations . Some brand PCs do not accept the device ,it is no way to add it 
>on . But if you reload systems all problems will be done."
>
>In other words, "just reinstall Windows and all your software." Ummm, no.
>
>Frankly, I'm not sure that the error message isn't bogus, since the card 
>works.  So at this point, I can just run with the current card unless 
>something truly goes wrong, or replace it with a $20 Inatek card (Chinese 
>company), or a $37 StarTech card (made in Taiwan for a Canadian company).  
>Throwing much more money than that at the problem is probably not worth it.  
>I'll probably replace the PC in a year or two, but I'd like to get a bit more 
>life out of it for now.
>
>Any thoughts or suggestions happily considered.  Thanks!
>--Peter

google...
https://www.minitool.com/news/device-not-migrated.html

nothing is suggesting you need to reinstall windows, just the driver.
just try updating the driver in Device Manager.

WayneS
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