what if my mobo lacks a port for the front panel cable?
by newbiesforever from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6M82S)
Looking for a motherboard as similar as possible to my old motherboard (which I couldn't find), I bought an old but allegedly unused motherboard. It works fine, but has a limitation that I didn't notice when I bought it, because I never catch every little detail as I should when I choose my components.
My new motherboard is the Asus M4A785TO-M Evo. The only problem is that it apparently does not have the port where you plug in the front panel cable. I kept looking at this board and realized none of the ports fit the connector. So, two of the four front USB ports are useless. Presumably, so are the audio ports.
There is not any problem turning the computer on, because the power cable connections are down where I expected them, in the lower right corner. Those little pins that the cables fit (very, very loosely) onto.
Ehh...I suppose I can solve the USB port problem by just plugging a USB hub into one of the two working ports. But I still wish I could just use the front panel cable, to keep things internal. Are there any modifications I could possibly make? Or some adapter I could fit onto the front panel cable, to make it plug it anywhere else?
My new motherboard is the Asus M4A785TO-M Evo. The only problem is that it apparently does not have the port where you plug in the front panel cable. I kept looking at this board and realized none of the ports fit the connector. So, two of the four front USB ports are useless. Presumably, so are the audio ports.
There is not any problem turning the computer on, because the power cable connections are down where I expected them, in the lower right corner. Those little pins that the cables fit (very, very loosely) onto.
Ehh...I suppose I can solve the USB port problem by just plugging a USB hub into one of the two working ports. But I still wish I could just use the front panel cable, to keep things internal. Are there any modifications I could possibly make? Or some adapter I could fit onto the front panel cable, to make it plug it anywhere else?