![]() ![]() ![]() but the tech guy at the comp store seemed pretty nonchalant about altering their connector.īelow is a picture of an adapter that came with the motherboard aligned as it would sit in the header and alongside that is a 9 pin female plug from the Cosair gears (they all look the same). I see Pin 8 is ground on the USB diagram anyway but if this is possible then why have I been supplied 9 pin connectors for my devices? Why do they deliberately "cover" pins they don't/cant use and waste a whole USB port?ĭespite all the internet grumblings, the people that build these things are not stupid. So is he right? Can I just modify the connectors and simply insert. I don't want to short anything out because I'm not using that grounding pin / NC pin. If it were just about keying, why wouldn't they have created a slot based mechanism for doing this especially since motherboard space is constrained? This is fine for the top row, but for the bottom row, it seems to me if the extra grounding / NC is there (Pin 10) it's there for a reason. Which gives me access to the bottom row / second port of the header. Into a 4 pin socket or join tow 9 pin sockets together to use the single header, like this: So he's saying I can shave the 9 pin socket to use this: And he said the pin above that (pin 10) was for grounding and it could be ignored if I did want to plug in a couple of devices to each of the two rows of fours pins left over. This i understand in principle but not the logic. He said the missing pin, pin 9 is for keying. The store didn't have a card like the NZXT one above but the tech said I could just alter/shave the 9 pin socket I was connecting into the existing header. tho 2 of them (bottom rows) are being wasted as they are covered by the 9 pin socket. So whilst I only have 2 headers, I actually have 4 ports. It conducts nothing and therefore just covers a whole USB port according to the USB diagram below: So in the picture above the bottom row is just plastic. USB is actually a four pin connection and although the cable has 9 female sockets, only four are used. The guy in the store said that the 9 pin plug i connect to this header is actually half empty. I have a motherboard with a 2 (two) internal USB headers on it and I thought that each of those was a single port.īut I just went to the computer store to buy a card to adapt one USB header into 2 USB headers as below: ![]()
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