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Acer V3-551 USB 3.0 Host Controller drivers

Hello,

Yesterday I purchased an Acer Aspire V3-551-8613. Because bloatware is so crazy on any new computers nowadays I decided to do a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium to deal with it all directly. I was pretty careful about tracking down drivers and whatnot, so it was't a big deal really. I even made an Acer Drivers and Applications disk before the reinstall to be sure. I was able to find all the drivers with little to no trouble, with one exception. Currently in my Device Manager 2 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controllers are present with the yellow exclamation point next to it.

I tried updating the driver from the CD that I mentioned previously and It said:

"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. AMD 3.0 USB Host Controller. The system cannot find the specified file."

Here are the Hardware IDs:

PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812&SUBSYS_06961025&REV_03
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812&SUBSYS_06961025
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812&CC_0C0330
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812&CC_0C03

Compatible IDs:
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812&REV_03
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_7812
PCI\VEN_1022&CC_0C0330
PCI\VEN_1022&CC_0C03
PCI\VEN_1022
PCI\CC_0C0330
PCI\CC_0C03

I have looked on the Acer website and they do not have any USB Controllers listed on the page for the V3-551. Any sites that I have found that supposedly have them, but they always require stupid subscriptions and whatnot.

At this point I don't really know where to look. I figure it doesn't matter hugely, but it would be nice to actually be able to utilize the USB 3.0 feature this computer has. Thanks for any help that can be provided.

Cheers.

~Benji

Update:

I figured it out, of course this happened just after I posted this. Figures. I needed to download the AMD Chipset Driver for Vista/Windows 7, which I found here: http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/AMD-Chipset-D...
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