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Last week I built my first home-made pc, with a Antec Sonata case and
MSI K8N Neo Platinum AMD64 754 socket motherboard.
The process went rather smoothly. But I do have a couple issues.
First, the MSI motherboard has 5 pci slots, one of them is an orange
colored dedicated communication slot, located at the bottom of the
motherboard, my concern is that what's the difference between this
'dedicated slot' and other pci slots. Does it have an edge over
other pci channels by inserting wi-fi network card here?
2nd issue is that Antec case comes with two USB front panel jack. But
the USB header connector inside the case isn't compatible with the
USB header located on the MSI motherboard. Namely, pin 10 (ground) on
the Antec usb connector is not empty, it has a thin black wire in it.
While the pin10 of the D-bracket USB header comes with MSI motherboard
is empty. So the front USB port doesn't work. I called Antec tech
support and it seems that they are aware of this issue. They agreed to
send me another USB board to be compatible with the motherboard.
Question here is that does USB header has a standard? I don't know
which manufacture is at fault here, MSI or Antec.
Last week I built my first home-made pc, with a Antec Sonata case and
MSI K8N Neo Platinum AMD64 754 socket motherboard.
The process went rather smoothly. But I do have a couple issues.
First, the MSI motherboard has 5 pci slots, one of them is an orange
colored dedicated communication slot, located at the bottom of the
motherboard, my concern is that what's the difference between this
'dedicated slot' and other pci slots. Does it have an edge over
other pci channels by inserting wi-fi network card here?
2nd issue is that Antec case comes with two USB front panel jack. But
the USB header connector inside the case isn't compatible with the
USB header located on the MSI motherboard. Namely, pin 10 (ground) on
the Antec usb connector is not empty, it has a thin black wire in it.
While the pin10 of the D-bracket USB header comes with MSI motherboard
is empty. So the front USB port doesn't work. I called Antec tech
support and it seems that they are aware of this issue. They agreed to
send me another USB board to be compatible with the motherboard.
Question here is that does USB header has a standard? I don't know
which manufacture is at fault here, MSI or Antec.