Can someone tell me what this connector is

needacamera

It's on the end of an old memory card reader I have and I'd like to find some way to connect it to my current motherboard or connect it via a usb adapter




Thanks

mrochester

It’ll connect to a header on your motherboard. Have you searched for your motherboard manual online to see if you can identify where on the board it should be connected?

forgotmyname

Looks like it connects to the USB header on the motherboard, or the board had a special pinout for that connector.

Only connects to one side of the USB header, so it will leave the other 4 pins unused.

Neil_Jones

Yeah as above connect it to the USB headers on the motherboard. You'll have a block of nine, this needs to go on the bottom row with the four pins.

Most boards have at least two of these USB headers and your current front USB ports will be connected to similar ports.

stragglebod

USB 2 header. Not the newer blue USB 3.


Make sure you connect it the right way round as the pins are not reversible. The empty solid block on your connector that looks like they forgot to add a pin should go over the empty solid block on the header.

stragglebod

forgotmyname wrote: »

Looks like it connects to the USB header on the motherboard, or the board had a special pinout for that connector.

Only connects to one side of the USB header, so it will leave the other 4pins unused.

It'll leave the other 5 pins unused

forgotmyname

stragglebod wrote: »

It'll leave the other 5 pins unused

Shhh... 4 is nearly the same as 5

Did i forget the plug in the pic connects to the 4 pin side?

or did i mistype 4 instead of 5?

Or just getting old and senile?

System

That isn't USB, there's only three wires. USB has four; Vcc, GND, data +, data -

rmg1

To me, it looks like the connector I had for an old 3 1/2" floppy drive (anyone remember those??).

Not sure what it's connected to at the other end of the cable or if it will connect to any modern motherboard.

forgotmyname

Dedicated connector from someone like dell or compaq that like to makes things difficult?

Possibly the negative/earth line is through another line so plugging it into a standard PC and it doesnt work.

Tried updating a Dell machine a while back, it would only accpt DELL memory, they had done something to the BIOS clock timings where standard generic memory would not work.
And because they are a nice company they locked the BIOS so not to show the timings never mind allow you to adjust it.

Neil_Jones

forgotmyname wrote: »

Dedicated connector from someone like dell or compaq that like to makes things difficult?

Possibly the negative/earth line is through another line so plugging it into a standard PC and it doesnt work.

Tried updating a Dell machine a while back, it would only accpt DELL memory, they had done something to the BIOS clock timings where standard generic memory would not work.
And because they are a nice company they locked the BIOS so not to show the timings never mind allow you to adjust it.

There is no such thing as "Dell memory", because Dell don't actually make anything, they just slap their brand on somebody else's rebranded product. You can usually get memory from places like Crucial where if you look up the model they will sell you some memory guaranteed to work or your money back.

Memory timings and things like that you won't find in the BIOS on the majority of branded computers, but you can get them through software like CPU-Z if you need them.