AmiSapphire wrote:

Strangely, I never had any issues with USB 2.0 cards that used a VIA chipset, except one...

I used a VIA based card about 10 years ago, with VT6212L chip, just like the one I returned today. It worked without issues in a 440BX based system and it was used plenty. I even routed the internal USB connector to outside of the case, because I needed all four connectors. Actually I still have that older VIA card here.

The NEC card I received past week has its chip marked D720100AGM. It works fine in Windows 98SE, where it got detected as NEC uPD720100A.

whats wrong with VIA? those should work fine with win98