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10-11-2007, 03:57 AM
I have a Foxconn C51XEM2AA motherboard right now.
But I bought an Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard off a guy at OCAU.
He was selling it because he couldn't get it to work. So I think, maybe he just couldn't get it to work because he had a Brisbane CPU, and his BIOS wasn't up-to-date, or something?
I didn't want to ask him, because then he might not have sold it to me.
So today, I recieve the board, pop in my 4600+ Windsor, one 1GB stick of DDR2-800 RAM, and my 8800 GTS 320MB. I find out it doesn't work with my Windsor, either.
Oh well, the board didn't cost me much.
But I also notice it comes with an onboard wireless card. I figure I'll see if I can use this card on my C51XEM2AA, instead of the PCI wireless card I have now.
Basically, that will allow me to free up the PCI slot, and use it for a TV tuner card (my other PCI slot is being used by my X-Fi XtremeMusic, which I modified)
So I pull out the wireless card it has. The pins it was plugged into are labelled USB910 (i.e. USB ports 9 and 10). But, it also has two extra pins at the side, which the wireless card was using.
A regular USB header looks like this:
.::::
The one the wireless card was plugged into looks like this:
:.::::
At that time, I was hoping those extra two pins weren't necessary for the wireless card to run.
I pull out a cable from the frontal USB ports of an old case I have, and solder new pins onto one end so I can plug it into the wireless card, then into a regular USB header on the motherboard
But after plugging it into my C51XEM2AA, it is not detected by Windows.
So I'm guessing those pins are needed after all.
Basically my question is this:
is it possible to identify what the extra two pins are? and if so, can they be used in a regular USB header?
*edit*
Is this question more suited for the Xtreme Mods section?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=83
But I bought an Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard off a guy at OCAU.
He was selling it because he couldn't get it to work. So I think, maybe he just couldn't get it to work because he had a Brisbane CPU, and his BIOS wasn't up-to-date, or something?
I didn't want to ask him, because then he might not have sold it to me.
So today, I recieve the board, pop in my 4600+ Windsor, one 1GB stick of DDR2-800 RAM, and my 8800 GTS 320MB. I find out it doesn't work with my Windsor, either.
Oh well, the board didn't cost me much.
But I also notice it comes with an onboard wireless card. I figure I'll see if I can use this card on my C51XEM2AA, instead of the PCI wireless card I have now.
Basically, that will allow me to free up the PCI slot, and use it for a TV tuner card (my other PCI slot is being used by my X-Fi XtremeMusic, which I modified)
So I pull out the wireless card it has. The pins it was plugged into are labelled USB910 (i.e. USB ports 9 and 10). But, it also has two extra pins at the side, which the wireless card was using.
A regular USB header looks like this:
.::::
The one the wireless card was plugged into looks like this:
:.::::
At that time, I was hoping those extra two pins weren't necessary for the wireless card to run.
I pull out a cable from the frontal USB ports of an old case I have, and solder new pins onto one end so I can plug it into the wireless card, then into a regular USB header on the motherboard
But after plugging it into my C51XEM2AA, it is not detected by Windows.
So I'm guessing those pins are needed after all.
Basically my question is this:
is it possible to identify what the extra two pins are? and if so, can they be used in a regular USB header?
*edit*
Is this question more suited for the Xtreme Mods section?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=83