Antec Sonata Frontside USB port

[kewldealspdx]

Only one of my frontside USB ports work. Anyone else have this problem with the antec sonata. i got it in the Fry's deals lately.

 

[mechBgon]

Simplest explaination: your motherboard's USB headers don't match the Sonota's cable pinout. What motherboard?

 

[kewldealspdx]

EPOX 8RDA3+...

 

[mechBgon]

If the 8RDA3+ is like the 8RDA+, you need to avoid plugging anything onto pin #10 of the USB header. It isn't ground like it's supposed to be, it's hot +5V. Look at the USB outlet plate that EPoX provides, see how two holes don't have wires? Make sure your Sonota does not have wires going to those holes either.

 

[MDE]

Don't mean to nitpick Mech, but it's Sonata. 🙂

 

[mechBgon]

:Q ~ doh!

 

[Chopstick217]

My brother has an Antec Sonata. Both usb ports work. Most likely its your mobo.

 

[kewldealspdx]

The sonata i had earlier had both usb ports working. This one is a new Sonata. The old one had all the pins seperately hanging. The new one has everything fused into a header. One pin in the header is blocked and i made sure that pin went in to the empty pin slot in the mobo. So basically u cannot plug it in wrong. But even then why iis one of them working ????

 

[0roo0roo]

ur board is older and the pin out was nonstandard? the pin out matched my recent pos ecs board alright

 

[kewldealspdx]

Got the board from newegg just 2 weeks back. can't figure out what's going on here.

 

[0roo0roo]

well the board and the case should have their pinout diagrams in the manual?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: kewldealspdx
The sonata i had earlier had both usb ports working. This one is a new Sonata. The old one had all the pins seperately hanging. The new one has everything fused into a header. One pin in the header is blocked and i made sure that pin went in to the empty pin slot in the mobo. So basically u cannot plug it in wrong. But even then why iis one of them working ????

Read what I wrote in my first reply. You may need to modify the Sonata's plug, because it has a ground wire where the EPoX ought to have a ground pin but instead may have a 5V pin due to a design error. This was the situation with my 8RDA+, so I know this one firsthand.

If you need to remove the wire from the Pin #10 hole on the Sonata's plug, then lift the little plastic "keeper latch" that holds the metal contact into the plug, and withdraw that wire from the plug.