Small USB card cannot be found

[ICIT2LOL]

i installed a small 2x 3.0 USB card in the board this pm as I wanted just one more port but it doesn't work and I cannot find it in Device manager or Speccy any thoughts please?

 

[TVeblen]

Hi John. Can you clarify:

• Did you install the card, turn on the machine, but no "New Hardware Was Found" came up?
• Or did you install the card, then the driver, and it does not work?

A few thoughts:

• One of those sneaky auxiliary power connections (usually molex)
• Bad slot (try another one)
• Bad card (a brick)

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hi John. Can you clarify:

• Did you install the card, turn on the machine, but no "New Hardware Was Found" came up?
• Or did you install the card, then the driver, and it does not work?

A few thoughts:

• One of those sneaky auxiliary power connections (usually molex)
• Bad slot (try another one)
• Bad card (a brick)

Yep you were right mate there is a ruddy great Molex stuck on the end where I hadn't noticed it I might just replace it with a 4 x 2.0 recycled unit into a header as it will be trashy running just one Molex to that card (sits hard between the GPU and cooler rad) unless I can sneak in underneath the cooler from the back of the case somehow.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Am revisiting this one I am wondering - to save a heap of ugly large wires to get that Molex on the card hooked up I have some Molex to fan connectors and am wondering if I could use a fan header to supply the USB card.

Am not real sure of the voltage though. Have tried a few Googles but cannot make out if I am safe to do that. The connectors I have are short wires and will not "untidy" the case as there is a fan header close by.

Anyone please?

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I would stick with the PSU for this and keep that full 12v load off the fan header but that's just me.

My other thought is give it a try and see if it powers the card reader in the first place, but I like to keep as much voltage off my mobo as possible.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I would stick with the PSU for this and keep that full 12v load off the fan header but that's just me.

Ok linne I will try and find a route in from the back somehow or even use a recycled 4 x 2.0 off the two remaining headers.

I reckon you are right and I had a gut feeling that told me I might be pushing my luck with fan header - was just trying to maintain the tidiness seeing everything else is.

Back to the grind LOL!!

 

[TVeblen]

Or do what I have done in the past when power supplies came with ridiculously short connectors: snip snip, twist twist, and tape an extension of the wires! I know you have old wires hanging around

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Or do what I have done in the past when power supplies came with ridiculously short connectors: snip snip, twist twist, and tape an extension of the wires! I know you have old wires hanging around

Hey you bin hacking my computer room how did you know that LOL!! Actually I just fond some 15" braided Molex to Molex and I can rig the rest behind the mobo as there is a ton of access there

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Perfect....always a way !

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Perfect....always a way !

Hum would be linne if the darn thing wasn't dead after all that nothing works in it so am going to have to buy a new one

 

[TVeblen]

A rash of failed add on cards this week. Fascinating.
Must be the Mayans!

 

[ICIT2LOL]

A rash of failed add on cards this week. Fascinating.
Must be the Mayans!

Yes mate glad I wasn't "probed" LOL!!