 My motherboard USB connector is not compatible, What can I do to make them compatible? |
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 Apr 10 2005, 10:05 PM
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Apr 11 2005, 01:09 AM
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Hi b_girl
Get your motherboard manual and check the pinout of that 10pin connector. (It is really two five pin connectors on top of one another.) The pinout should enable you to plug in your 4 pin connector and still have all the correct signals. The extra pin is usually an extra ground signal. So you should be able to plug it in as pin+connector OR connector+pin. BUT you must match the signals in the correct order otherwise you can do damage to your USB devices and/or motherboard. I did see a situation where USB1- and USB2+ were round the wrong way so I had to remove the wires from the connector and transpose them. but I doubt you will have that problem. -------------------- Soltek QBIC, Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 200GB SATA HDD, ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB, Netgear 54Mb/s WAP, ridiculously expensive Satellite Broadband Windows XP Home SP2, Trend Micro Internet Security, Firefox, Thunderbird, AdAwareSE, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster, A-squared Free, Ewido Security Suite. |
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 Apr 11 2005, 09:23 AM
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Hi Rimmer,
Thanks for responding. There is no instruction manual. I found the instruction manual for my computer on-line. It had a diagram of the motherboard, but the pins are not labeled. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/netv...pdf/24p2934.pdf page 34. It looks like the pins are too close and I have tried many ways to connect it and no go. It is two 4 pin plugs, not singles. The board is not really labeled either. NetVista system-boards are only made for IBM, so they expect you to only use their towers and not move things around. In the IBM tower the front USB was compatible, but not this one. I am not only worried about splicing the wires and putting them in individually, but I don't think they will have enough space to fit and I am not exactly sure what pins go where! Who knows? I am sure the answer to this problem will be interesting. Thanks again for your help. Angel |
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Apr 11 2005, 09:20 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 2,159 Joined: 18-March 05 From: near Sydney, Australia Member No.: 14,809 |
Don't you love IBM? They have to make everything their own way, even the standardised things!
This site could shed some light on the connector, but they are putting a new mobo in the IBM case not vice-versa: http://www.miim.com/pc/audio/index1.html -------------------- Soltek QBIC, Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, 200GB SATA HDD, ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB, Netgear 54Mb/s WAP, ridiculously expensive Satellite Broadband Windows XP Home SP2, Trend Micro Internet Security, Firefox, Thunderbird, AdAwareSE, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster, A-squared Free, Ewido Security Suite. |
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