USB Connector.

[svol]

A friend of my has an EPoX EP-LX370B (only selled in Europe) motherboard with the Intel 440LX chipset.
The problem is that is has an 16 (2x8) pins USB connector (it is an AT board) to connect to an USB bracket. This type of bracket seems to be unfindable but I rememberred that I once saw a post here about using other brackets on this type of connector by manually connecting each wire to the right pin. I serached on the EPoX Europe site for information about the pin functions with no result.

Has anybody ever seen this type of USB connector and is someone able to help me find the right pin functions so I can use a normal USB bracket to give the motherboard some USB ports.

You can find the manual of this board here: <A HREF="http://www.epox.nl/manuals/lx370b10.pdf" target="_new">http://www.epox.nl/manuals/lx370b10.pdf</A>

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[Crashman]

Habla en Esnpanol? LOL, I FOUND IT confound it! <A HREF="http://www.elma.it/TESTO/USBf.htm" target="_new">http://www.elma.it/TESTO/USBf.htm</A> about halfway down the page shows pin layouts for several manufacturers. Here's the deal:

1. Get a USB bracket with 4 pins per connector (single row connectors). If all you can find is the 5 pin variety, chop off the last ground pin (5-pin connectors have two grounds)
2.) Connect the RED wire of the first lead to Pin 1 of the 16-pin connector
3.) Connect the RED wire of the second lead to Pin5 of the 16-pin connector.
4.) Ignore the other (#9-16) row of pins.

I have a connector around here somewhere with 4 rather than 5 leads, but you would be better off to get one locally and remove lead 5 if all you can get is the 5-pin variety.

If all you can find is the 10 pin double-rowed variety, you'll need to make new connectors!

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[Crashman]

EPOX Pin
Vcc+ 1
Data - 2
Data + 3
GND 4
Vcc+ 5
Data - 6
Data + 7
GND 8


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[Crashman]

[-peep-], I just realized who I was speaking to! Hey, I have some BX chipset Slot 1 AT boards if you're interested, a Gigabyte that only supports 66/100MHz FSB, and two Asus that support 66-150MHz FSB in small increments!

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[svol]

LOL. Thanks for the info... that is exactly what I needed to make a normal USB connector fitting to this mobo.
I will aks my friend if he's intereseted... he will also need a slotket because he has a 400MHz Celeron CPU on it.

But you seem to have a lot of hardware around there... another interesting things you want to sell?

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[Crashman]

Most of my stuff is leftover Pentium 1 stuff that I got stuck with two years ago when the PC market bottomed out locally. Been refurbishing boards to put beans on the table though.

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[svol]

Old computers can always be used for something... you said you had a P133 around a month ago did you? If so, add it to the list... it might be handy. Any other Pentium 1/2 class CPUs?... my neighbours could use one to replace their 166MHz thing with, will have to find out which mobo they have first.

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[Crashman]

I have a bunch of Pentium 1 systems and a few processors (I threw most of them away). Anyone who needs a Pentium 133 with sound, CD, and network card, (drive preloaded) can get one for $40. Similar Pentium 200MMX computers with more RAM, bigger hard drives, and a modem (plus the parts of the slower system) cost $80. The all have the most common software of their day on the drives.

The processors are cheap though-when I can find them. Know anyone who could use a Pentium Overdrive 166MMX?

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[svol]

Yeah... for a lot of things you don't need a 2GHz system. Surfing on my P75@90Mhz network server works... albeit loading pages is a little slow sometimes.
My neighbours got problem playing MP3s on their PC... I tried newest drivers and stuff, but nothing seems to work. Then I read somewhere you need a P200 for MP3 (although my dad's Compaq 166MHz can do MP3 too), so I suspect it is the CPU.

But if that Pentium Overdrive would fit in a Advanced ZP mobo I will be interested in it... but Intel says it doesn't.

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[Crashman]

Intel said it did last I checked, I set up a bunch of those processors on those boards. This is the MMX chip with the onboard voltage reducer, multiplier, and fan. I bought three of them 2 years ago for $25 each, I could let you have one for $10.

One thing I have noticed is that not all BIOS versions report the correct speed. It will show up as either a 166, 100, or 66 in BIOS, but CPUID has no problem recognizing the actual speed.

A lot of stuff was made with MMX in mind.

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[svol]

Interesting... I can't seem to find it here: <A HREF="http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/advancedzp/" target="_new">http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/advancedzp/</A>.

But I might buy one... just to try. Let me think about it and I will see.

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[Crashman]

Crap, dude, I just went on a wild goose chase. Intel no longer has information on the compatability of that processor, only a list of incompatable boards (yours is not on the incompatable list). But I remembered seeing it on Gateway's site for that board, remember when you could look up boards by the BIOS ID there? Well, you can't do that any longer...so I can't find the page. But doing a search at Gateway turned up few documents, I think they deleted the old stuff. So that only leaves me at my word, which is: I've sold OVER 100 GATEWAY SYSTEMS with this processor on that board. In fact, this is probably the most common board Gateway has ever used, at one time it was in ALL their systems except for the low profile desktops.

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[svol]

Add it to the list... if I remember clearly that CPU used to stand on the compatible list for that board some years ago.

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