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Thread ID: 80776	2007-07-05 01:17:00	USB WLAN adaptor dead?	technicianxp (6463)	Press F1

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565877	2007-07-05 01:17:00	Hi guys I've been building a couple of PCs from a few motherboards and CPUs I acquired. However on one of them I connected the front USB panel connectors the wrong way around, essentially reversing there polarity (as there were no labels, and I didn't check the website until it was too late). Unaware of this I plugged my 3Com USB wireless adaptor into it, and since then it hasn't worked on any of my computers. I plug it in but the computer doesn't detect it. Although this is fairly pointless I want to ask anyway, is there any hope for it? I spent a fair bit of money on it and it's an uncommon model with a revolving USB connector which allows it to be plugged into awkwardly positioned ports. Aside from this just a small question, is it possible to purchase the metal surrounds for motherboard IO panels alone from anywhere? I am after two for Asrock P4i45GV motherboards.	technicianxp (6463)
565878	2007-07-05 06:12:00	I'd strongly suspect that it is defunct. :( With a keyed connector, the assumption is that 5V is on the 5V pin, and ground is on the ground pin. Unfortunately, the pins are +5, data, data, ground. Reversing that order is a bad idea. It would have been possible to make it +5, ground, data, data, so reversal wouldn't have caused any damage. But they didn't. ;)	Graham L (2)
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