A7V and adding USB ports

[eburies]

I have an A7V rev 1.02 board. I have installed the additional 3port usb module that comes with the mobo, but now I am considering adding two more USB ports to make it a total of 7. The packaging of the A7V states that it can handle 7 USB ports but I'm not sure how to hook the two port add-on I purchased. The new add-on port I purchased has two 5 pin female ends but I'm not sure where they go on the mobo. I only have a four pin and five pin male that I can see on the mobo.

Anyone able to hookup more than five USB ports on their A7V?

 

[Guest]

on the bottom of your mainboard where you hooked up your 3 additional usb ports are there three groups of jummpers labeled usbport, usb3a, and usb3?

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the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[eburies]

Yes, there are three jumpers labeled usbport, usb3a, and usb3. Usbport and usb3a are being used by the add-on that came with the A7V. What type of other add-on USB two-port can I buy that will work? Or should the one I saw that had two 5 pin female ends work?

 

[Guest]

the one with two 5 pin connectors should work BUT you will probably have to rearrange the way the wires set in the connectors. page 41 in the manual shows the correct pinout but i am still trying to figure out how it relates to the usb port.

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the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[Guest]

got it if you look at the usb with the four contacts facing down it is from left to right usb power, usb power-, usb power+, grnd

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[eburies]

I really appreciate the explanation. When I get home tonight I'll give it a try and post what type of success I have. Thanks for the time you put into this endeavor.

 

[Guest]

you're welcome.
i enjoyed doing the research.
good luck!

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the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[eburies]

No luck adding a two port usb connector. I hooked up the two five pin connectors to the USB3 port and then the outer two USB ports (from the 3 port USB that was supplied by Asus) no longer are active and the two new USB ports don't work either. If I have an item hooked up to the new USB ports when I first turn it on, and have items hooked up to the two outer ports on the three port hub; the item plugged into the new port works and the others items are not recognized. If I unplug the new item when Win98 SE is up and running, when I plug it back into the new USB slot it now longer works.

I plugged in the 5 pin connector with the red wire to the left on both connectors. And I have reversed them just to see what would happen but no luck. I even switched the gray 9 pin connector that was hooked up to my 3 port USB hub to the USB3 jumper but then the two outer USB ports on my 3 port hub didn't work.

Would someone else like to move their 9 pin gray cable to the USB3 jumpers and see if all three of their USB ports work?

I'm not sure exactly what is wrong: did I do something wrong or not. I have enabled the extra USB ports in the bios and asked the bios to reset the configuration data but that didn't help either.

I am using 1005c bios but have also used 1005b and 1005a.

Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

did you rearrange the wires in the five pin connector?
i believe that the way most are configured are 3 wires space and then 1 wire. also in control panel, system do you show to have more than two usb hubs?

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the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[eburies]

No, I had not rearranged the wires in the five pin connector but I will try that. The five pin connector that came with the A7V looks like the way you described what I should do to the two five-pin connectors. I will give it a try.

When I had hooked up the connectors, I believe that I had three usb hubs (one was a "generic usb hub").

I'll try it and see what happens!