USB 2.0 connection betw. MoBo and front panel?

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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
 
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?
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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.
 
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