Eclipse 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 Well, my sister is planning to get an IPOD Mini, and our PC is a Compaq that we bought back in 2001, and I heard you need either USB 2.0 or FireWire to connect it. I don't even know if we have USB 2.0. The question is, DO we need USB 2.0 to connect it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mik 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 No, you can connect it with a regular USB port but it will just go a bit slower. With firewire or USB 2.0, you can upload songs nearly instantly, but with a regular USB it takes a small bit of time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 It's not a small bit of time--it's for-fucking ever. If you're willing to leave your computer on transferring songs overnight, you'll be fine. It'll be much easier just to drop $20 on a USB 2.0 card and hook that up. Just search "USB 2.0" at Amazon.com and you'll find a whole slow of perfectly acceptable and easily installed little bits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 Heh, she has no patience for stuff like that, so it looks like she will be buying a USB 2.0 card for the PC.....lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smues Report post Posted July 22, 2005 People who bitch about USB 1 being slow obviously never had to transfer mass amounts of data via a serial connection. THAT was slow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted July 22, 2005 People who bitch about USB 1 being slow obviously never had to transfer mass amounts of data via a serial connection. THAT was slow. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL, yes, my friend's dad told me legendary stories on how dreadfully slow serial connections were. Good thing nothing like that exists...scary... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2005 Ok, we got the iPod Mini 4GB, I installed the USB 2.0 card, I followed all the instructions, and guess what? iTunes won't pick up the iPod Mini AT ALL. It just keeps blinking Do Not Connect on the iPod and has not picked up the device at all. It takes a REALLY long time for it to appear on My Computer as well. What could be the problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pochorenella 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2005 I have a somewhat similar problem. You know how Itunes is supposed to start up automatically when you connect your Ipod? Well, everything's been fine until today when I connected my Ipod to my computer via the USB cable and danm Itunes didn't start. In fact, it seems it doesn't recognize the device anymore. I doesn't charge, and I sure as hell can't edit my playlists. Any help, please? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2005 Hell yeah, we need the help. Windows recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, but it will not load iTunes when I connect the iPod... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2005 Did you run the formatter on the iPod software disc? If that doesn't do it, go to ilounge.com. I'm sure you can find an answer there quite easily. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 It's also possible that they hooked it up to the ancient motherboard wrong and the USB 2.0 port isn't reading correctly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 Hell yeah, we need the help. Windows recognizes it as a USB Mass Storage device, but it will not load iTunes when I connect the iPod... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That happened to me at first too. Did you do the restore when Windows prompted you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted August 1, 2005 Everytime I connected the iPod to the port, and ran the CD to format it properly, that little folder icon appeared on the iPod, and made the iPod unusable. I returned the USB 2.0 port, and got another iPod. I told my sister to do this on a friend's PC, which she is. It's just funny how EVERYTIME I ran the CD, and formatted it, the iPod would be ruined... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
