Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe USB3 header broken!

riskman99$ · 30 May 2017 at 20:44

So I've gone ahead and done something very stupid.

Whilst pushing in the USB3 cable into the motherboard's USB3 header, I managed to push and destroy two of the pins, one of which completely snapped off, as so...

So now the USB slots on the front of my case no longer work

My question is - does anyone know if any PCI-E 1X cards exist that allow the case's USB3 cable to be plugged into it so I can restore USB3 functionality on the front of the case? That's if, of course, the cable will stretch out that far, which I'm a little doubtful of in the first place!

Any advice is welcome!

ron3003 · 30 May 2017 at 22:46

You still have a full set of pins on the right (the bottom one is supposed to be missing) so one of your front usb's should still be functional.

riskman99$ · 31 May 2017 at 09:31

Thanks for the heads-up. Didn't realise both ports have an individual set of pins.

I'll try this out when I get home tonight and will report back.

riskman99$ · 1 Jun 2017 at 20:03

Turns out the pin I destroyed was the ID pin, which is required for signalling the USB3 protocol. Without it, I'm stuck at USB2 speeds

ron3003 · 1 Jun 2017 at 21:44

Get a pci-e addon card then, they're around £6 on the bay. I have a few here in various pc's. There's always been enough length on the cable from the front panel to reach. Just be aware you'll need a molex that can reach the addon card too.

riskman99$ · 1 Jun 2017 at 22:38

Yeah that's probably the way forward.

Thanks for the help.