How to connect the floppy bay 6 usb 2.0 ports for my M5A97 LE R2.0 mobo has 6 midboard 2.0 usb ports

smithsgrind

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I ordered on Amazon, after looking a lot, it was never the right amount of usb 2.0 ports, or they would throw in 3.0 ports and 2.0 ports together. I have a hub on of the usb 3.0 ports in the back, this motherboard has only 2 usb 3.0 ports, it's not a tragedy, the hub allows my external hard drives to be connected at all times (3 of them go through there), and the other is for thumb drives generally. It does have 12 usb 2.0 ports in the back, but I have a lot of peripherals and well, I ended up buying usb to ps2 converters for my keyboard and mouse, those things don't need usb, it's simpler this way, and some computers unless it is specified in the BIOS will not detect ps2 connected mouse or keyboards but..nah I'm good with that. Thing is I have a lot of things that need charging, I even bought a DVD bay sound card so I could plug my sound card and sound system without it being a hassle, it's not a pci-e 1x card but whatever, my Radeon HD 8870 hides the super sound card input, I already have spdif through my sound system connected to it so that's no real loss.

The problem is those three blue connectors for the midboard on my mobo all say different things, and I'm not sure what I ordered connects to those plugs. They say USB1314, in the middle it says USB1117 and the one most to the left says USB591, at least from this photo, my desktop's tower side panel is fiberglass so I can see inside, but my 2 PCI ports are occupied by devices and it hides looking at it from that angle. It looks like I would have to disconnect everything, put the desktop on its side to really try. The problem is that the cable at the end of the floppy bay 6x usb ports for midboard usb connectors doesn't end with what looks like could be connected to these. I can link to what I bought if that helps, but also the fact that there is 3 of these for the usb ports..makes me think that it would only make a few of the 6 work and the usb extension bay thingy is not what I bought, which Amazon only had from China and I waited a good 4 weeks to get.

I bought this : https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAA0D4C42455

Now it's been sitting in the floppy bay as like I said, i'd have to disconnect everything to bring the desktop to a table and see if this even fits those plugs. By the looks of it, I'm not sure at all.

Anybody who can help would be very appreciated, I normally end up finding (thanks to this site sometimes) the solution to an issue, but I can't find help at all with this. Also, I would take out the desktop but behind my office room's desk, is a nightmare of tangled wires that I will only untangle, while sweating heavily because I am doing some spring clean up (it's still spring, so I can make my fiancee happy and have an excuse). I hope I didn't buy this for nothing, it wasn't on Amazon, it was on Newegg and I don't think there was any warranty for this item.

Thanks a lot for your attention.

edit: I want to mention that the motherboard is flashed to it's latest and I guess last version : 2701 date: 03/24/2016
 
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Yes, I see it only needs one connection to a USB 2.0 header. You can choose any of the three available on the motherboard. It looks like it also needs a 4-pin molex connected from the power supply.

The internal USB 2.0 headers are blue, three of them, in the middle on the bottom of the motherboard.

smithsgrind

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Thanks for the info....but if you looked at the device I bought, it has only one cable....which doesn't look like it would fit there, it looks more like a reset button/power button/lights on your desktop, you know those very difficult to install because there's so many of them...right next there to the left of my sata 3gb/s plugs. To be more clear I can show everyone without needing to click :
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Yes, I see it only needs one connection to a USB 2.0 header. You can choose any of the three available on the motherboard. It looks like it also needs a 4-pin molex connected from the power supply.

The internal USB 2.0 headers are blue, three of them, in the middle on the bottom of the motherboard.
 
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smithsgrind

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There is only one cord going from the adapter to be plugged somewhere. So I don't know what kind of other connection it would need. The box says it doesn't need anything else anyways. So it might be like some I've seen claim they had bought...these ports work but cannot be used as a charging port which sucks, pre-made computers they sell at Staples have usb ports in the front damnit. It didn't come with anything else but the floppy bay with the 4 ports and the cable that's hard-wired to the device. Are you sure this can be connected to these below and to the left of the PCI slots, where these USB slots are, it's kind of hard to see and a google image search doesn't show me anything more clear than this, I've never seen a cable like this, well, power, reset cables that need to be given voltage on these pins next to the sata 3gb/s along with those voltage cables and the ground one etc., but these do not have two rows of entry like this one. I wouldn't understand why it would need something else, although if it only for power, then good, but I don't have anything like that, can you point to me to something like what you mean on newegg or tigerdirect or something?
 

smithsgrind

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Oh, I was lacking some sleep.

Yeah I have some converter cables to these old kind of power cables, since I had slid that in a couple months ago and didn't feel like installing it right away, because to be honest, in my office room at home, my PC desk's behind is a nightmare of entangled wires of all kinds, so when I do it, I'll be cleaning up the whole place. Thanks a lot, I just didn't even see this, that white old-style power prong there.


edit: Damnit, I had 3 converters but this needs a female old-style power cable, the 4 pins inside are poking out so yeah, I need to procure that.The only issue now is where would I connect this, I've seen female molex 4 pin cables that go a 3 pin fan power, but my side panel fan uses that, others have directly female 4 pin molex (it turns out all the converters molex to sata cables were power male molex, when this thing needs a female molex cable and some sata power slot. I think all of my power supply is used right now with 3 internal hard drives 2 DVD-R's (well one is a DVD-RAM but it reads and burns anything else). Now I gotta figure out how to get power to this thing.