Bent front USB pins on mobo, fixable?

[TickleMyElmo]

My mobo has the front usb fan headers on the bottom. While installing new fans and a vertical GPU mount I bent nearly half the pins. Could they be fixable or should I just forget about them and use the back ports, which I do have enough of.

 

[EarthDog]

A picture is worth 1000 words. How bad is it? Likely you can fix them...

 

[TickleMyElmo]

I''ll send a pic shortly.

 

[SPL Tech]

just bend them back. if they break, well it was not like they would work while bent so no loss.

 

[TickleMyElmo]

It'll really hurt the resale value of this board though. Makes me sad.

 

[EarthDog]

It'll really hurt the resale value of this board though. Makes me sad.

Do it carefully...more carefully than when you installed the vertical glu mount.

 

[TickleMyElmo]

Lol

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I learned my lesson. don't mess with delicate parts after drinking.

 

[EarthDog]

ha! Nice! Looks good now!

 

[TickleMyElmo]

Felt like a Doctor doing heart surgery.. Lol

 

[Ben333]

Nice job. Back in the day a friend of mine modded a rackmount network switch into a mini-pc with a mini-itx core 2 duo. He didn't want to cut out all the rear IO, just VGA LAN and USB. I advised him on using metal side-cutters to remove the audio ports and possibly parallel \ serial. Works fine if you're careful.

 

[rainless]

Now whip out the soldering iron... remove the USB port entirely. Solder a thunderbolt connector on there. Connect to doppler radar...

 

[Ben333]

What is the difference? My new MB has USB 3.1 10 gig type A and Type C I believe. Is Thunderbolt 3 more than USB-C?

 

[EarthDog]

What is the difference? My new MB has USB 3.1 10 gig type A and Type C I believe. Is Thunderbolt 3 more than USB-C?

Da. 40Gbps bidirectional IIRC...

Edit: ahh ha..

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2019/20190128_1352-understanding-Thunderbolt3-bandwidth.html

 

[Ben333]

Ok thanks. So it is a higher bandwidth version of Type C basically? I know thunderbolt can run a PCI-E enclosure for say, a GPU along with 10 gig networking and an NVME drive. I'd assume you can NOT run any PCI-E devices over type-c, but I do know you an run USB3 SSDs and USB high-speed network solutions.

 

[EarthDog]

Ok thanks. So it is a higher bandwidth version of Type C basically? I know thunderbolt can run a PCI-E enclosure for say, a GPU along with 10 gig networking and an NVME drive. I'd assume you can NOT run any PCI-E devices over type-c, but I do know you an run USB3 SSDs and USB high-speed network solutions.

sorry for the links... they explain it better.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/thunderbolt-3-vs-usb-c-whats-the-difference?amp=true

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

Instead of 2 working ports, your only going to have 1 port, best thing to do is replace the whole connector.

 

[EarthDog]

Instead of 2 working ports, your only going to have 1 port, best thing to do is replace the whole connector.

Oh wow... didn't notice he lost a pin...

Not sure he can replace the connector without desoldering the connector and resoldering it... thats done as far as I'm concerned.

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

I take it back, if the external USB device has it's own power, then no problems but a USB flash drive? no way on port 1.

 

[EarthDog]

I take it back, if the external USB device has it's own power, then no problems but a USB flash drive? no way on port 1.

What does Vbus do? I see there is also two pins for it... would the one be enough?

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

What does Vbus do? I see there is also two pins for it... would the one be enough?

Vbus is the +5 volts for port 1.