Additional USB port on the mainboard

Hi,

there's an additional USB port available on the connector labelled "CN11" at the backside of the mainboard (see pic, original shot made by tnkgrl: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/276 ... d0_o_d.jpg). It seems that only one row of the header is connected to +5V / GND - the other row seems to be dead.

I've just installed a bluetooth USB adapter to confirm that it's working. That part of the mainboard is plenty spacious for soldering and fixiating a normal sized bluetooth adapter.

Happy hacking,

dogbert

 

Great find. Those pads look bigger to solder on too as opposed to the mini pcie ones. Definitely keep that header in mind when I ran out of output ports on my 4 port hub

 

Absolutely wonderful. Now I have one extra USB to operate... Thank you!!

 

This thread must be sticky,great found...

 

got my bluetooth adapter in now haha but seems like battery gone faster than before

 

I bet you have 100m Class 1 adapter and it's working all the time... There was info about using "stronger" BT dongles where range is better but battery live is "shorter"...

 

great find. thanks!

just put in the bluetooth dongle under the HDD...took a lot of courage (second time using soldering iron)! they are much easier to solder than the mini pci pins, but still kinda small.

now i can sleep well! :mrgreen:

 

It's only a few cm to the unused 3G slot! I want to try putting a 3G modem dongle in it

 

Nice, thx for the tip!!

This means I will have to desolder my bluetooth dongle which I had soldered to one of the USB ports on the soundboard.
MY plan was to desolder D+ and D- from the USB board, route this to an internal usb 2.0 hub, then route back D+ and D-.
However, this is way easier.. So, I guess It's desolder time

I'll just wait untill I have bought a new USB 2.0 hub

 

Great find! I just soldered my bluetooth module to that port and it is working. BTW i got the hard disk version (150) - the hard disk will need to be removed to reveal the usb port.

 

Do you guys know if the 5VDC supply is switch off when your machine is off?

 

The same soldering points you've got on opposite site on the motherboard...

 

yeah I noticed that too, but that one is very close to the CPU so I didn't use that side. i don't have the soldering skill and steady hand required.

 

iirc the 5V are turned off when the machine is shut down.

 

in the pic you highlight one row of pins, but the other row (the one with 5pins) isn't it another usb port? it look like the usb pins on a ATX motherboard

the pinout
http://pinouts.ru/Motherboard/usb_internal_pinout.shtml

here is more clear
http://www.pugetsystems.com/help/usb.php

can anyone check that?

 

Here you go:

 

my bad then... i dont see that

to bad that there is only one usb port onboard

 

Of course you can feed that one port to a hub and have more ports to play with... :mrgreen: Then that's when the fun begins.

 

As the others said, great find, I am sure it will help many people!

 

Does anyone know wich is the thinnest USB HUB we can find on the market?
Thanks
P.S. Does this port switch off when the screen shut down? (Power safe :mrgreen: )