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Quick Question
A friend of mine gave me his old internal 7 in 1 card reader but my Dell
doesn't have an internal USB 4 pin plug. Is there an adapter that will take the flat 4 pin female plug from the reader to a normal USB plug? I tried to find a USB controller card with an internal plug like the one on a mobo but apparently they don't exist (or I just don't know where to look), all I can seem to find are ones with a normal USB plug. |
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Matt wrote:
A friend of mine gave me his old internal 7 in 1 card reader but my Dell doesn't have an internal USB 4 pin plug. Is there an adapter that will take the flat 4 pin female plug from the reader to a normal USB plug? I tried to find a USB controller card with an internal plug like the one on a mobo but apparently they don't exist (or I just don't know where to look), all I can seem to find are ones with a normal USB plug. http://www.pricewatch.com search string... USB controller card internal First hit, ETT (Controller Cards) Details: -(4 external and 2 internal) 2 Extra Internal USB port that connects to Front Case Panel Except they lie about it. The one they describe costs 'extra'. Still, it's $7.99 (free shipping), plus whatever other options, like "full retail" being another $1.99, you want. http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/m...y_Code=USBCard |
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but doesn't this one just have a standard USB input on the back? I need
the same sort of input found on a motherboard... just the bare pins "David Maynard" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: A friend of mine gave me his old internal 7 in 1 card reader but my Dell doesn't have an internal USB 4 pin plug. Is there an adapter that will take the flat 4 pin female plug from the reader to a normal USB plug? I tried to find a USB controller card with an internal plug like the one on a mobo but apparently they don't exist (or I just don't know where to look), all I can seem to find are ones with a normal USB plug. http://www.pricewatch.com search string... USB controller card internal First hit, ETT (Controller Cards) Details: -(4 external and 2 internal) 2 Extra Internal USB port that connects to Front Case Panel Except they lie about it. The one they describe costs 'extra'. Still, it's $7.99 (free shipping), plus whatever other options, like "full retail" being another $1.99, you want. http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/m...y_Code=USBCard |
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"Matt" wrote in message ... but doesn't this one just have a standard USB input on the back? I need the same sort of input found on a motherboard... just the bare pins "David Maynard" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: A friend of mine gave me his old internal 7 in 1 card reader but my Dell doesn't have an internal USB 4 pin plug. Is there an adapter that will take the flat 4 pin female plug from the reader to a normal USB plug? I tried to find a USB controller card with an internal plug like the one on a mobo but apparently they don't exist (or I just don't know where to look), all I can seem to find are ones with a normal USB plug. http://www.pricewatch.com search string... USB controller card internal First hit, ETT (Controller Cards) Details: -(4 external and 2 internal) 2 Extra Internal USB port that connects to Front Case Panel Except they lie about it. The one they describe costs 'extra'. Still, it's $7.99 (free shipping), plus whatever other options, like "full retail" being another $1.99, you want. http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/m...y_Code=USBCard The one David pointed out has the internal pins to connect a front panel OR your 7 in 1. Its probably easier however to just buy a USB 7 in 1 reader that plugs into an existing USB port. Mine cost £7 GBP. Shaun |
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"Shawk" wrote in message ... "Matt" wrote in message ... but doesn't this one just have a standard USB input on the back? I need the same sort of input found on a motherboard... just the bare pins "David Maynard" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: The one David pointed out has the internal pins to connect a front panel OR your 7 in 1. Its probably easier however to just buy a USB 7 in 1 reader that plugs into an existing USB port. Mine cost £7 GBP. Shaun ahh sorry about that, I was just going by what I saw in the picture and it looked like all the others I had seen. I see now that I needed to be looking for one with front ports for case panels. I would just get another card reader but I don't have any free USB ports on my computer so I thought a free reader along with a $10 USB PCI card would be nice. |
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"Matt" wrote in message ... "Shawk" wrote in message ... "Matt" wrote in message ... but doesn't this one just have a standard USB input on the back? I need the same sort of input found on a motherboard... just the bare pins "David Maynard" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: The one David pointed out has the internal pins to connect a front panel OR your 7 in 1. Its probably easier however to just buy a USB 7 in 1 reader that plugs into an existing USB port. Mine cost £7 GBP. Shaun ahh sorry about that, I was just going by what I saw in the picture and it looked like all the others I had seen. I see now that I needed to be looking for one with front ports for case panels. I would just get another card reader but I don't have any free USB ports on my computer so I thought a free reader along with a $10 USB PCI card would be nice. Hope you get what you want - these card readers are a godsend. Good thing about my portable one is that I can plug it into several PC's to swap large files such as multimedia-rich presentations, movies, demo's etc. I treat my media cards like extremely large floppies - largest I have at the moment is a 500MB one - my first PC had a hard-drive smaller than that!! Shaun |
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Matt wrote:
but doesn't this one just have a standard USB input on the back? I need the same sort of input found on a motherboard... just the bare pins 10'th item on the list of features 8 Ports (4 External Ports + 2 Internal Ports + ----- 2 Front Ports for case panel ----- Those should be like the motherboard headers that are for front panel ports. "David Maynard" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: A friend of mine gave me his old internal 7 in 1 card reader but my Dell doesn't have an internal USB 4 pin plug. Is there an adapter that will take the flat 4 pin female plug from the reader to a normal USB plug? I tried to find a USB controller card with an internal plug like the one on a mobo but apparently they don't exist (or I just don't know where to look), all I can seem to find are ones with a normal USB plug. http://www.pricewatch.com search string... USB controller card internal First hit, ETT (Controller Cards) Details: -(4 external and 2 internal) 2 Extra Internal USB port that connects to Front Case Panel Except they lie about it. The one they describe costs 'extra'. Still, it's $7.99 (free shipping), plus whatever other options, like "full retail" being another $1.99, you want. http://www.dvcentury.com/Merchant2/m...y_Code=USBCard |
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