Preliminary notes:
Although the Windows Operating Systems from Win8 up natively do support many USB 3.0 Controllers by using a generic Microsoft USB 3.0 driver, it is often better to install the specific USB 3.0 drivers, which have been developed, optimized and released by the manufacturer of the related USB 3.0 Controller.
Unfortunately some manufacturers of USB 3.0 Controllers offer just a compressed Drivers & Software Set, but not the "naked" drivers, which can be integrated into an OS image or manually installed from within the Device Manager.
To make it easier for you to find the latest USB 3.0 drivers in an already extracted format, I have started this thread, where you can find direct download links to the latest available drivers for the most popular and still produced USB 3.0 Controllers.
Additionally I am offering here some USB 3.0 drivers, which have been modified by me to make them usable with USB Controllers and Operating Systems, which are not supported by the original drivers.

Tips for the manual installation of USB 3.0/3.1 drivers:

1. Before starting with the installation, you should make sure, that your input devices (keyboard and mouse) are connected with USB ports from another manufacturer or - if available - to PS/2 ports. Another option is to use a "Virtual Network Computing" (VNC) Tool and to execute the installation of the USB 3.0/3.1 drivers from another Mobile system (look >here<).
2. Expand the "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" section of the Device Manager and check the HardwareIDs of the listed USB Controllers (right click onto them > "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" >"HardwareIDs") to find out, which of the Controllers is the one, where you want to update the driver software.
3. As first step you have to update the driver software of the USB 3.0/3.1 Controller.
4. After the reboot the Device Manager will show within the "USB Controllers" section devices with missing drivers. These are the USB 3.0/3.1 Hub Devices, which belong to the USB 3.0 Controller, where you just have updated the driver software.
5. Now you can easily install the missing USB Hub Device drivers by navigating to the related driverpack.
6. Users with an on-board Intel USB 3.0 Controller may have to update the "USB 3.0 Switch Driver" as third step (see below).
7. After the next reboot everything should work fine.

• The latest Intel USB 3.0/3.1 driverpacks do contain at least 3 different USB 3.0/3.1 drivers:
  1. an "Intel(R) USB 3.0/3.1 eXtensible Host Controller Driver" named iusb3xhc.sys, has to be installed by pointing to the file named iusb3xhc.inf (after the installation the related device is named "Intel(R) USB 3.0/3.1 eXtensible Host Controller"),
  2. an "Intel(R) USB 3.0/3.1 Hub Driver" named iusb3hub.sys, has to be installed by pointing to the file named iusb3hub.inf (after the installation the related device is named "Intel(R) USB 3.0/3.1 Root Hub") and
  3. an "Intel(R) USB 3.0/3.1 Host Controller Switch Driver" named iusb3hcs.sys (only usable/needed for systems with an USB Controller "Switch").
  Notes: The related USB Switch device is usually named "PCI Express Root Complex" and listed within the "System Devices" section of the Device Manager. It has to be installed by pointing to the file named iusb3hcs.inf. After the installation the Switch device may be renamed to "PCI bus".

Zitat von Jest im Beitrag #2

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For my system, Win8.1 and Z77, i used 64bit Intel USB 3.0 Drivers v3.0.4.65 mod by Fernando and it's working.
But i didn't do any benchmarks.

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Zitat von SimpleTech im Beitrag #4

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There's a small typo under the Intel USB 3.0 section:

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Zitat von 100PIER im Beitrag #6

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I have tried to update INTEL USB 3.0 Controller V 1.0.10.255 to your modded driver CONTROLLER V 3.0.4.65. Windows 7 detects that driver is not numerical signed (not WHQL) and ask in a red warning message if i want to force or not.
Do i have to force ? Is it correct ?

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Zitat von hcwuschel im Beitrag #9

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Here is the driver for Etron USB 3.0 chip, which is used on ASRock mainboards with 6/7 chip set: http://station-drivers.com/index.php/dow...roller/Drivers/

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Zitat

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What is the reason for using a modded 8/9 chip set driver on a 7 chip set instead of using the original 7 chip set driver: http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php...WHQL-(Serie-7)/

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The answer has already been given by Hakuryuu. I totally agree with him/her.
By the way: Your linked USB 3.0 drivers, which were designed by Intel for their 7-Series Chipsets, are dated 09/17/2013, that means, that they are very old.

Zitat von hcwuschel im Beitrag #12

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I think I found a bug in your first post:

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1

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Preliminary notes:
Although the Windows Operating Systems from Win7 up natively do support many USB 3.0 Controllers by using a generic Microsoft USB 3.0 driver, it is often better to install the specific USB 3.0 drivers, which have been developed, optimized and released by the manufacturer of the related USB 3.0 Controller.

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Isn't Windows 8 the first Microsoft OS with native USB 3.0 support?

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Zitat von gpvecchi im Beitrag #14

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@Fernando, do you plan to make Intel 4.0.18 modded drivers for Z77 and Windows 8? Thanks!

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