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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: basserho on January 22, 2003, 09:38

Title: Port Assignment
Post by: basserho on January 22, 2003, 09:38

i have four usb ports in my pc, but only two work, how/or is it possible to assign these to be available for use, please help.

Cheers

Basserho

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: bat69 on January 22, 2003, 09:55

Hi Basserho,

Do you have a manual for your motherboard? (if not do you know what the motherboard is?)

The reason I ask is that sometimes there is a little 'jumper' on the mobo that controls the functionality of the additional ports.

I would have expected Windows to have detected these extra ports if they were enabled in the hardware.

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: Simon on January 22, 2003, 12:48

Are all your USB Ports actually on board your motherboard, Basser, or are they separate, like on a PCI card, or a hub?

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: Sandra on January 22, 2003, 14:10

Are all 4 in the same place ie on a pci card or on the motherboard? I have the original 2 on my motherboard and another 2 on a pci card as the original ones wouldnt work with my ADSL modem as I have a via chipset and they dont seem to like each other.I had to disable the onboard ones and just use the pci ones in order to get the ADSL modem to work.
Has someone done a similar thing with your PC  ???

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: bat69 on January 22, 2003, 14:26

Another question for you  :- sorry

If the USB ports aren't on the mobo, are they actually connected to the mobo. Some cases come with USB ports in them, but you have to get an additional cable to connect it to the mobo, if it has the facility.

If I remember right Basserho, you are using Win98se
Click on    START | SETTINGS | CONTROL PANEL | SYSTEM  then click on the DEVICE MANAGER TAB  and see if they are recognised there ... there may be a yellow exclamation mark, and in the properties, it may tell you that you need the drivers installing ....  just more for you to check, sorry :)

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: basserho on January 23, 2003, 10:08

got them working now, dont ask me how, but there working, thanks for the help though

Title: Re:Port Assignment
Post by: Clive on January 23, 2003, 10:20

That's great news Basser.  Thanks for letting us know.