Reply 47080 of 52914, by Repo Man11
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The good thing about its cheapness is that it's so nice and light that it's easy to pick up and move, great for swapping motherboards and other parts for testing. It has front USB, but I kept running into problems. I initially thought that it might be because the pins weren't set correctly (they were all individual) so I decided to put the wires into a nine pin USB plug. But even after doing that (and painstakingly making sure the wires were correct with a voltmeter since they weren't correctly color coded) USB devices were hit or miss. I was testing another motherboard, and sometimes the USB drive would work, sometimes the computer would tell me "This device could work faster in another port" and sometimes plugging the drive in would lock the machine up and I'd have to hit the reset button. I was at a computer store today that has some new old stock, and they had a USB back plate for $5.00 that looked about right. Installing it involved drilling a couple of holes, and the wires were only just long enough to reach the USB header, but now the front USB ports work perfectly.
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