07 Jun 2003, 15:54, JIM HOLSONBACK (1:123/140), wrote to MATT MC_CARTHY:

Hi JIM.

 JH> Bir, some weeks back you told about probs getting the front panel 
 JH> USB ports to work, and bir also it was with an Asus mainboard.  Do 
 JH> you recall the details of the problem and its solution?

 JH> Reason I ask -  Ray Edester has a new "screamer" Asus board with 
 JH> AMD Athlon XP2800+ or so, 333 fsb dual channel DDR, and all, new case 
 JH> and PS, and he can't seem to get the front panel USB ports to work.

Probably won't help, as that problem involved using the pigtail
"flying" ground lead on the USB cable from the front panel USB
connectors causing the second IDE channel to become disabled when that
pigtail was plugged into the MB.  That was for the ASUS P4PE MB.

My first suggestion would be to make sure he's plugging into the CORRECT
set(s) of USB pins.  I assembled an ASUS P8000 board, Intel version, (I
suspect that's what Ray might have the AMD version of) last Thursday, and
there were at least _six_ different pairs of USB connectors on the
motherboard.  Took me almost an hour of reading to figure them out!

Next would be to be sure the pin on the plug with the red lead, usually
marked +5, mates to pin #1 of the MB connector, and if the front panel plug
has a fifth 'flying lead' marked "ground", ignore it and leave it
'flying'.  The colors I've seen on the cases we use are red, white, green,
black; for pins #1, #2, #3, and #4.  Ray might want to check with the rear
panel connectors to make sure the pinout is the same, and maybe even plug
in the rear connector to see that it actually works (if he has a pigtail
rear panel setup).  That P8000 had all the rear connectors 'built-in'.

Lastly, the CMOS setup on these new boards is NO picnic!  Manuevering is a
PITA, and understanding the entries is near impossible.  Go through the
manual line by line for each CMOS item, cross your fingers or select
"default for this page", and hope you can get to the USB section!

That's about all I can think of at the moment...


     Good luck...  M.

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