MSI Dual USB Port Bracket Teardown

Written By: samhnri
Published: 08/04/10
  • Comments: 3

MSI Dual USB Port Bracket Teardown

Published: 08/04/10

Teardown

Introduction

This is a teardown of a dual USB port bracket with LED activity lights for a desktop computer. These brackets, which mount on any open expansion card slot on a computer chassis, add two USB ports to the back of a computer using a connection to a 9-pin USB header on a motherboard. This one came out of a desktop with an MSI motherboard.

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    • This part of the bracket consists of the circuit board enclosed in a plastic housing, which we will tear down in the next step.

    • These connectors plug into the USB headers on the motherboard.

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    • Use a Phillips #1 screwdriver to remove the four screws from the white casing and the two screws from the metal bracket.

    • On the bottom of the circuit board, the pins that hold its components can cut skin.

    • The two USB 2.0 ports.

    • The four LED lights, which light up depending on the activity of the USB ports.

    The LEDS are actually diagnostic lights for the corresponding motherboard and not USB activity lights

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    • Raise the three connectors from the case and it's out!

    • The connectors highlighted in red lead to the wires that connect the bracket to the motherboard.

    • The two USB ports.

    • The LED activity lights.

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samhnri

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2 comments

Why does it need its owe usb header just for the LED's.

Rick Acker -

That "usb header" is especially for MSI motherboard diag. status (mobo K8T Neo2 FIR 6802E, D-Bracket 2)

trollo1972 -