link to the hub board?

maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-12-23, 21:06:

link to the hub board?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124508039042

Takes em a while to arive from china but worth the wait inho

thanks!

One of these would ease installation. "USB 2.0 Type A Male Cable Replacement 9-Pin USB IDC Dupont Male Header To Single"

Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-12-24, 02:34:

One of these would ease installation. "USB 2.0 Type A Male Cable Replacement 9-Pin USB IDC Dupont Male Header To Single"

Oh that would be great!

Does that take one plug and split into two sets of pins? Am I seeing that correctly?

maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-12-24, 02:00:

thanks!

No prob 😀

It takes one plug and ends in the standard nine pin male USB header.

Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-12-24, 13:22:

It takes one plug and ends in the standard nine pin male USB header.

Think it has a little hub in the plug head? Or just both sets of pins are direct wire to the usb A

Sphere478 wrote on 2021-12-24, 13:24:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-12-24, 13:22:

It takes one plug and ends in the standard nine pin male USB header.

Think it has a little hub in the plug head? Or just both sets of pins are direct wire to the usb A

The one I have is just wires.

I'm not sure how that "USB 2.0 Type A Male Cable Replacement 9-Pin USB IDC Dupont Male Header To Single" works, or if it even goes the direction you think it does. A 9-pin is for two USB ports and this only has one. Weird.

I had a completely different problem recently. My i945/ICG7 motherboard only had USB 1.1 ports! Yes, I confirmed all four rear ports and the two headers on the motherboard. What's worse is that the motherboard headers are 2x4 pin headers NOT 9-pin keyed headers! So I needed to order a special adapter, since they are wired up differently.

I never imagined that a Core 2 Duo motherboard would need an expansion card just to get USB 2.0.

🤔 crazy. Yeah a core mobo should have at least usb 2.0 🤣

I checked the manual, too. The 2x4 pin headers are awkward enough that it has to label the pinout, since there is no key.

It's an industrial motherboard, but still. No USB 2.0 is just super awkward in this era of board.

USB on Windows 9x is such a headache. Sometimes it works great. Sometimes it works intermittently or not at all. Sometimes you get both symptoms on the same machine at random!

Today I couldn't get the motherboard on my test bench to boot due to "resource conflicts". This is the board I always test with and these problems seem to occur every so often. I kept removing cards until it was just the video card and the NEC USB 2.0 card. Moving the problem card to a different slot is usually enough to help the BIOS resolve these conflicts itself and get a bootable system, but I KNOW that the card will work on this slot, because I always use the same slot for this USB card.

I kept futzing with options in the BIOS, and I think toggling Plug 'n Play BIOS off and on is what fixed it. When the system booted up, I attached my MicroSD card reader. Normally, an LED will turn on inside the device to indicate that it's working; but not this time. Even when testing in another USB port, there was no LED. I then tried attaching my USB wireless adapter. Its LED turned on. Then the screen corrupted and the system froze. Great.

I rebooted again in the same configuration. The MicroSD adapter now works fine. The USB wireless adapter also works fine. I call shenanigans.

Maybe this is just a USB 2.0 thing. I can say for sure that I've always had some kind of trouble using USB with Windows 9x.

There are many older systems that are slowed down quite a bit by USB 2.0 cards

You should do some testing to make sure that’s not happening

Windows millennium edition doesn’t seem to have any trouble with USB

This is Windows ME. 😀

Kahenraz wrote on 2022-11-12, 18:39:

This is Windows ME. 😀

🤔 how odd.