control center collects the driver GUIDs registered and then searches for device connected to driver with that GUID. So if it registered under some VID/PID in the registry then control center should be able to find it irrespective of the hub port the device is connected to...
Regarding prom having 0082 it was used to download the monitor program automatically... you can disable eeprom and connect the device. Then using vend_ax example you can write the desired value...