Sage

Howday!

I have a custom built computer in a case which has a neat little feature on the front- the ability to put four USB hookups at the bottom of the tower, underneath the power button. However, right now the casings for the CD drive, hard drives, etc are in the way of actual access to these hookups.

If I wanted to put USB hookups to these holes that are avaliable for them, what would I have to do? This is a very strange feature to me, as the harness for the drives (that came with the case) is kinda in the way of the holes that you'd put USB access to!

I can take pictures and let you see what I'm talking about if that would help.

Is the only way to get more USB ports for your computer (aside from buying one of those external things, which I already have) to get a motherboard with more slots avaliable? If so, then the setup of my tower *really* doesn't make sense, as the holes for the USB ports are horizontally along the bottom of the tower, and the slits in the back for all your sound/video cards are also hoizontal (meaning that those cards must be plugged into a motherboard that's mounted vertically).

The reason I'm asking all of this is because my motherboard isn't putting out USB2.0, and my Flash Drive MP3 player isn't supported when I plug it into the USB extender that I have (one of those crappy little dealios where you plug one end into a USB port and you get four useable ports on the other end). This isn't a *huge* deal to me, I'm just curious.

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