Need more onboard USB ports

The board I have EVGA E758-A1 has only 3 onboard usb's and the HAF case comes with a panel you have to hook up and it has 3 onboard usb connectors. and I will be getting a card reader that I have to connect via onboard USB so that makes all 4 slots used up. Is there a work around?
2 of the connectors say USB 1 says 1394, but they look the same.


also theres a connector that says HD Audio on it, and its got the holes like this

. . . .
. . x .


the x stands for a closed hole.

I have 2 of those connectors on the haf panel but only 1 on the motherboard from what I can see.

Do NOT connect a 1394 port pinout on the mobo with a cable to a bracket providing USB sockets, and do NOT use it for your card reader. It's a bit of bad design that slipped through the system, but the SAME mobo pinout connector is used for these two very different ports. Depending on the combination, using a USB device connected to an IEEE 1394 port may damage your USB device and / or the mobo port. Likewise, never arrange to connect an IEEE 1394 device to a USB port.

Similarly, the HD audio pinout on the mobo should only be used to connect to a bracket with audio connectors on it.

It appears your mobo has only two USB pinout connectors on it, and you need to devote both of them to a front-panel card reader. There is no good way around that dilemma. You could search for a different card reader that uses up only one USB pinout. But I do not know of any adapter that makes more pinouts from one or two.

I assume you have other USB ports on your machine, possibly as actual USB connectors on the back panel. These also are driven by your mobo, but not through 10-pin connectors. If you find yourself running out of usable external standard USB ports, get a USB Hub, preferably self-powered (that is, it comes with its own power supply "brick" you plug into the wall). A hub will multiply one standard USB port into 4, 6, 8 - whatever number it has. Each USB port can supply a certain amount of power to its device. A simple hub has to make all of its plugged in devices share the limited power available from the host port. But a self-powered hub uses the wall adapter to make full power available on every one of its ports.