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BrandStartech
Item Height
22 centimetres
Item Width20 millimetres
Technical Details
- Add two standard A Female ports to the back of your computer
- Easy to use and install
- Backed by StarTech.com's lifetime warranty
- Two standard A-type USB outlets mounted on a plate with 11.25 inch (285.75mm) cable to the 5 pin connectors
- Supports 4 or 5 pin motherboard connections
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Product Description
Product Description
The USBPLATE 2 Port USB A Slot Plate converts the USB pins from most AT style Pentium (and newer) motherboards to 2 standard USB A-Style ports. The plate can be mounted on the rear panel of a computer case, adding two USB A female ports for simple connection to USB peripheral devices.
Product Description
StarTech.com 2 Port USB A Female Slot Plate Adapter - USB panel - 4 PIN USB Type
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This type of PC accessory is quite difficult to get hold of online.
This one can be purchased with full and complete confidence. It fits into the case rear expansion slots and the headers connect directly with what seems to be a standard connector arrangement on the motherboard (mine is an Asus). It is completely passive so needs no drivers.
This one can be purchased with full and complete confidence. It fits into the case rear expansion slots and the headers connect directly with what seems to be a standard connector arrangement on the motherboard (mine is an Asus). It is completely passive so needs no drivers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3 reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Works fine .. but you'll spend a few minutes re-pinning it.
4 Sep 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase
Ok. Your computer motherboard has an unused 2x5 male-pinned header that serves up two USB ports. [Those are usually there in case you happen to have internal devices that expect to be powered, controlled and/or configured as USB devices.]
And your normal-height computer case has an unused slot in the back.
Who can't use more external USB ports, right? So plop down the $8 + s/h get this thing.
The wires are short. I measured them at exactly 7.5" from base of the USB port to the very end of the wire header. Since the USB Ports actually sit an inch or more above the mobo, in practical terms, you're not going to get much more than 5 inches of reach. If you need an 12" extension cable, look at item cab-167 vended at FrozenCPU. Even the wire color is a match.
There WAS a catch. The female end of this gizmo that plugs into the motherboard was mis-pinned. Swap the pins into the correct location and you're good-2-go.
On the motherboard, the CORRECT pinout for a single USB internal header is:
Pin1, Red, +5v (Power)
Pin2, White, USB- (Data)
Pin3, Green, USB+ (Data)
Pin4, Black, Ground
Pin5, Void (OR an optional, heavier-gauge black wire for SGND, Signal Ground)
I rec'd this gizmo pinned as
Pin1-Red
Pin2-VOID
Pin3-White
Pin4-Green
Pin5-Black
I had to carefully move the female pins around to correct this.
Use the smallest jeweler's (or eyeglass repair) flat-tip screwdriver you can find. Gently and ever-so-slightly lift the small restraining flap in the plastic terminator--the end to lift is found at the lower edge of the little open square that reveals a part of the pin. The pin should slide/drop right out. Then slide the pin into the correct slot. The pin will click in place behind the restraining flap. Don't bust the flap off or ... well, you know.
While this fix is simple enough, you can be sure that thousands of customers created immense amounts of costs and work for the manufacturer and vendors when they simply returned these things after finding the USB ports didn't work.
As such, you can also be sure that somewhere, in some distant part of the world, the worker who built tens of thousands of these incorrectly -- a worker whose only job description was "insert Pin1 as red, Pin2 as white, ..." -- has now returned to a career in agriculture.
UPDATE: I bought another one of these in August, 2011. It came (correctly) pinned as:
Pin1-Red
Pin2-White
Pin3-Green
Pin4-Black
Pin5-Black
I guess the first one was just a one-in-a-zillion dud.
And your normal-height computer case has an unused slot in the back.
Who can't use more external USB ports, right? So plop down the $8 + s/h get this thing.
The wires are short. I measured them at exactly 7.5" from base of the USB port to the very end of the wire header. Since the USB Ports actually sit an inch or more above the mobo, in practical terms, you're not going to get much more than 5 inches of reach. If you need an 12" extension cable, look at item cab-167 vended at FrozenCPU. Even the wire color is a match.
There WAS a catch. The female end of this gizmo that plugs into the motherboard was mis-pinned. Swap the pins into the correct location and you're good-2-go.
On the motherboard, the CORRECT pinout for a single USB internal header is:
Pin1, Red, +5v (Power)
Pin2, White, USB- (Data)
Pin3, Green, USB+ (Data)
Pin4, Black, Ground
Pin5, Void (OR an optional, heavier-gauge black wire for SGND, Signal Ground)
I rec'd this gizmo pinned as
Pin1-Red
Pin2-VOID
Pin3-White
Pin4-Green
Pin5-Black
I had to carefully move the female pins around to correct this.
Use the smallest jeweler's (or eyeglass repair) flat-tip screwdriver you can find. Gently and ever-so-slightly lift the small restraining flap in the plastic terminator--the end to lift is found at the lower edge of the little open square that reveals a part of the pin. The pin should slide/drop right out. Then slide the pin into the correct slot. The pin will click in place behind the restraining flap. Don't bust the flap off or ... well, you know.
While this fix is simple enough, you can be sure that thousands of customers created immense amounts of costs and work for the manufacturer and vendors when they simply returned these things after finding the USB ports didn't work.
As such, you can also be sure that somewhere, in some distant part of the world, the worker who built tens of thousands of these incorrectly -- a worker whose only job description was "insert Pin1 as red, Pin2 as white, ..." -- has now returned to a career in agriculture.
UPDATE: I bought another one of these in August, 2011. It came (correctly) pinned as:
Pin1-Red
Pin2-White
Pin3-Green
Pin4-Black
Pin5-Black
I guess the first one was just a one-in-a-zillion dud.
Plug in & it works
17 Oct 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase
I have Intel DG33TL and DG41TY motherboards with lots of USB connectors on the board. These are intel style 2x5 connectors.
StarTech plugs into the 2x5 connector right in, no pin swapping is needed. The shielded-looking wire goes into the not-connected area (reserved for the cable shield (not used/not needed). The rest is compatible with the MoBo.
StarTech plugs into the 2x5 connector right in, no pin swapping is needed. The shielded-looking wire goes into the not-connected area (reserved for the cable shield (not used/not needed). The rest is compatible with the MoBo.
USB outlet
5 April 2008
Amazon Verified Purchase
Works very well, only gripe is the length of the cable, which was a bit short in my case and needed some juggling the extention cards around to get a free slot close enough to the USB pins of one of my motherboards.
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