USB 2.0 connection betw. MoBo and front panel?

[Eric Levy]

Hi,
I'm have a home-built system with the SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus
motherboard. The board has four internal USB ports each mapped to a
five pin header. The layout of each header is diagrammed below, in case
it is relevent. Since the board has no USB 2.0 ports, I recently
purchased a PCI card, which has four external type A female connectors
and one internal, and with no header connections. Recently, I've become
interested in purchasing a flash memory card front panel, one with four
slots and able to read or write to any flash card of the major types.
Typically, these devices connect to a USB header on a motherboard.
However, since my motherboard has no USB 2.0 ports, I prefer to connect
to my PCI card.
Evidently, I either need a cable that connects the header layout on
the motherboard to the type A female connector, or I need to replace the
PCI card with one that has headers. However, both appear to be rare
breeds, for I've failed to find either such a cable or such a card, even
after significant efforts. The usefulness of both products, however,
would seem very great. So what am I missing? Is there a way to obtain
one of these, or is there a very good reason why neither is common?
What can I do connect the front panel to a USB 2.0 port on my system?
Thanks for your help, and please email responses to
(e-mail address removed), with the three b's removed.
Eric Levy

Pin layout SB port each header
01: Power
02: Data (-)
03: Data (+)
04: Ground
05: Ground

 

[Gary Tait]

Hi,
I'm have a home-built system with the SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus
motherboard. The board has four internal USB ports each mapped to a
five pin header. The layout of each header is diagrammed below, in case
it is relevent. Since the board has no USB 2.0 ports, I recently
purchased a PCI card, which has four external type A female connectors
and one internal, and with no header connections. Recently, I've become
interested in purchasing a flash memory card front panel, one with four
slots and able to read or write to any flash card of the major types.
Typically, these devices connect to a USB header on a motherboard.
However, since my motherboard has no USB 2.0 ports, I prefer to connect
to my PCI card.
Evidently, I either need a cable that connects the header layout on
the motherboard to the type A female connector, or I need to replace the
PCI card with one that has headers. However, both appear to be rare
breeds, for I've failed to find either such a cable or such a card, even
after significant efforts. The usefulness of both products, however,
would seem very great. So what am I missing? Is there a way to obtain
one of these, or is there a very good reason why neither is common?
What can I do connect the front panel to a USB 2.0 port on my system?

Can you solder?
I'd liberate the A type plug from a spare/damaged/non USB2 USB cable,
and arrach it to the card reader (maybe by using a few inches of cable
with the A plug, either soldered to a header, or using an IDC female
(attaxched to the A cable), with an extra long pin header (to mate the
card reader connector, to tne female connector on the A-header cable),
or you could just stick the wires of the A cable into the header of
the card reader.

 

[Mike G.]

Hi Eric,

Check out this link. Click on 'More Images', and look at the cable in
the picture. It looks like this would hook the bay hub reader to the
internal USB 2.0 port on your PCI card, or maybe you could thread it out
the back and use one of the external ports, if that works better for
you. You will need a free floppy bay.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?DEPA=&sumit=Go&description=20-162-402&searchdepa=0

Good Luck,
Mike