USB Ports On Mother Board Not Working

TBoyd said:

Just in case your USB ports on your motherboard are not able to be fixed, you can get a 4 or 5 USB port card that you can add to a pci slot on your motherboard.

Do I just buy any PCI card or anything specific that I should look for according to my motherboard? Also wanted to know if USB 3.0 would work on my PC? Is there a combined card for USB 2.0 and 3.0 or do I have to buy 2 separate cards if I want USB 3.0 as well?

Thanks,
Chinu

chinu2710 said:

TBoyd said:

Just in case your USB ports on your motherboard are not able to be fixed, you can get a 4 or 5 USB port card that you can add to a pci slot on your motherboard.

Do I just buy any PCI card or anything specific that I should look for according to my motherboard? Also wanted to know if USB 3.0 would work on my PC? Is there a combined card for USB 2.0 and 3.0 or do I have to buy 2 separate cards if I want USB 3.0 as well?

Thanks,
Chinu

I'd check to make sure there were free slots available, and then what type of slots they are (typically PCI on older machines, PCI-e on newer).

Don't know if there are cards that have both 2.0 and 3.0.

If you need more than 2 more USB ports, go for the USB 2 PCIe card. All of the USB 3 cards I've seen only have 2 ports, while the USB 2 cards will have 4 or 5 - (4 external & some have 1 additional internal).

I wouldn't be concerned with USB 3 until your next PC upgrade.