Slow USB on Satellite A50 after format

Hello,
I hope somebody here can help me...
After some years of collecting 'garbage' on my Satellite A50, today I decided to format the harddrive and start with a clean install of Windows XP.
Before this I had both a wireless network and an external harddisk connected via USB and both worked just fine.
Now, after the clean install, Windows keeps telling me I have fast USB hardware connected to slow USB ports and under 'Hardware' there is an USB-controller which is not properly installed. However I can not find correct drivers for it anywhere!
I know it must be possible to update the USB to 2.0 because up till yesterday everything worked just fine.
Can anyone help me please?
It would be much appreciated so thanks in advance!

Did you install the whole MS updates??
My brother has had a same problem. He has connected a scanner to the computer and the message has appeared because of the USB 2.0 issue.
He asks me for a help. I have updated simply the WinXP, installed all QFEs and service packs.
This was the key
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