You have so many options when building a PC today. There are hundreds of PC cases and motherboards to choose from for the foundation, but they're not always fully compatible. I'm not talking about ...

USB 1.1 and 2.0 appear to share the same pin header layout on my motherboard (Abit AT7 with both 1.1 and 2.0 headers). I'm assuming that the wires are able to carry the same signals as 2.0, so I think ...

I have a usb 2.0 card with an internal port that goes unused. I'd like to put a front port from it.<BR><BR>can I simply use an extention cable and cut a hole in the front of the case for a port there?

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