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USB Header Cable For ELITE K7AMA Motherboard
This is one that has been annoying me greatly
I bought a brand new ELITE K7AMA motherboard that is advertised as having four USB ports, two on the back plate two via a USB header on the motherboard.
Is there a cable supplied as standard you would think so but there isn't.
Contact the place you bought it from, did that they don't supply them and won't get them in.
Well thats OK you can buy standard USB header cables, true but the header on this board does not seem to be standard.
Well you could always look in the manual and make one yourself using the pinouts described in it, wrong the manual lists in detail the pin connections of every connector but the USB header.
Look on the manufacturer web site then you say, nope no sign and they appear to have a pop3 server that must eat emails because I've never got a response yet!
Does anyone know if there is a header cable for this bloody board or should it be advertised as 4 USB ports 2 useable two sitting around doing nothing for the rest of the boards life.
I live in UK so I don't want to pay the price of a motherboard in shipping.
If you have the pinouts I can make my own, I'm very technical like that you know :o)
I bought a brand new ELITE K7AMA motherboard that is advertised as having four USB ports, two on the back plate two via a USB header on the motherboard.
Is there a cable supplied as standard you would think so but there isn't.
Contact the place you bought it from, did that they don't supply them and won't get them in.
Well thats OK you can buy standard USB header cables, true but the header on this board does not seem to be standard.
Well you could always look in the manual and make one yourself using the pinouts described in it, wrong the manual lists in detail the pin connections of every connector but the USB header.
Look on the manufacturer web site then you say, nope no sign and they appear to have a pop3 server that must eat emails because I've never got a response yet!
Does anyone know if there is a header cable for this bloody board or should it be advertised as 4 USB ports 2 useable two sitting around doing nothing for the rest of the boards life.
I live in UK so I don't want to pay the price of a motherboard in shipping.
If you have the pinouts I can make my own, I'm very technical like that you know :o)
Well, all the headers doubtless go to the same controller chip, so you might as well just use a USB hub off one on the ports that is already connected. That's probably more useful than another 2 outlet header adapter if you get a hub with 4 or more ports. There's no performance gain in using a different motherboard header.
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This is what I needed tested it with my meter and now have the connections working ty
Just for Magarity...depends on mainboard...my board has two controllers rather than one, one for the forward header and one for the rear. Initially during setup of the board, I thought I had screwed the driver installation when I checked device manager and discovered two USB root hubs and two controllers but it really has two controllers. How important this is????I have one USB device.T
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Same here two controller on the board
USB Backplate(1X10 pin or 2X5 pin), available in the UK at e-PCs although I'm not sure this address will work, you may have to search for their site but try:
www.e-pcs.co.uk
About US$10
Good luck...T