[Cialug] OT: Making use of motherboard USB headers

Nathan Stien nathanism at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 13:24:03 CDT 2007


On 9/14/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> The case will often come with the necessary connector to plug into
> that. Last time I did this, I had to reconfigure the pins on the cable
> where they connect to the motherboard header. Keep the manual which
> should show the proper pinout.

In my experience, the extra USB ports usually come in the form of a
back panel piece that screws in where a PCI card would.  You may be
able to find them at a local computer store.

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Nathan P. Stien
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