About 6 months ago, I bought an ECS internal 3.5" flash card reader when placing an order for other items for my Dad. I figured, what the heck, it is only USB 1.1, but I only use the flash cards on an occasional basis. I'd just like to know I could access files on one on my old PC if I wanted to. It was only 5 bucks, too.
So, first I downloaded the driver, UCR-61S2B_v19e2.zip. I read that you need this, even in Windows XP so that it will be detected properly.
I wanted to put the card in an ECS K7VZA v1 motherboard based system. The first thing I ran into was the fact that the end of the cable wouldn't plug into the pin header on the motherboard. This motherboard was manufactured back in 2000. I figured since it was also ECS, just like the card reader, and was probably from about the same era, they should work. Wrong. One of the places where it looked like there should be a hole was plugged up with plastic.
So, I drilled the hole out with a tiny drill bit. Then I plugged the card reader in. Nothing. Nothing at all detected. I loaded the driver - still nothing. No power light came on or anything.
So, I started doing research. Turns out that the ECS K7VZA v1 motherboard has an older style (imagine that!) internal USB pin header. According to a website I found, the pin header on the motherboard is set up like this:
G D+ D- S P
5 4 3 2 1
10 9 8 7 6
P S D- D+ G
Where S=OCO and P=VCC
something else I read said S=shield, and is not truly necessary
So, I rewired the holes by pushing in on the release pins, sliding each connector out, and re-ordering them. That didn't work either.
I got mad, threw the thing in the trash, and gave up on it for a few days. Yesterday, I got to thinking that I probably just had some wires backwards, so I went to look in the trash for it. My wife had already emptied the trash into the dumpster. So, last night, I was out digging through the dumpster in 14 degree weather, looking for it. Turns out she had put it in the dumpster next to ours. So, this morning, I went through that one, and found it.
So, at this point I've spent about 2 hours trying to look up information about this reader, another hour or two troubleshooting and re-ordering the wires, and probably half an hour digging through trash trying to find it.
I've given up on trying to use it with the older ECS K7VZA based system. Instead, I'll put something down there that will also add front USB hookups.
I would like to put this card reader on my more modern Biostar M7VIT Pro motherboard based system. It has more modern USB 2 pinouts on the motherboard. It already has front USB built into the case. Currently, one of the 5.25" drive bays is taken up by a card reader. Putting this thing in there will let me free up a bay for an optical drive.
My only problem now is that I am all confused about the wire order that I need. I've messed with the order of the wires several times, lost the notecard that supposedly told me what I needed, and am hoping that somebody out there can see what is wrong right away when I describe this.
The end of the wire I have to plug in to the pin header looks almost exactly like the old speaker wire hookup that you hook directly to a motherboard. It has 5 holes, the 5th of which was originally filled with a plug of plastic. (b4 I drilled it out)
Now, I have the following wires going to the holes:
1 2 3 4 5
black green white empty red
Can I just reorder these and get the card reader to work properly? Anyone have any suggestions on what order to put the colors in?
Thanks!
So, first I downloaded the driver, UCR-61S2B_v19e2.zip. I read that you need this, even in Windows XP so that it will be detected properly.
I wanted to put the card in an ECS K7VZA v1 motherboard based system. The first thing I ran into was the fact that the end of the cable wouldn't plug into the pin header on the motherboard. This motherboard was manufactured back in 2000. I figured since it was also ECS, just like the card reader, and was probably from about the same era, they should work. Wrong. One of the places where it looked like there should be a hole was plugged up with plastic.
So, I drilled the hole out with a tiny drill bit. Then I plugged the card reader in. Nothing. Nothing at all detected. I loaded the driver - still nothing. No power light came on or anything.
So, I started doing research. Turns out that the ECS K7VZA v1 motherboard has an older style (imagine that!) internal USB pin header. According to a website I found, the pin header on the motherboard is set up like this:
G D+ D- S P
5 4 3 2 1
10 9 8 7 6
P S D- D+ G
Where S=OCO and P=VCC
something else I read said S=shield, and is not truly necessary
So, I rewired the holes by pushing in on the release pins, sliding each connector out, and re-ordering them. That didn't work either.
I got mad, threw the thing in the trash, and gave up on it for a few days. Yesterday, I got to thinking that I probably just had some wires backwards, so I went to look in the trash for it. My wife had already emptied the trash into the dumpster. So, last night, I was out digging through the dumpster in 14 degree weather, looking for it. Turns out she had put it in the dumpster next to ours. So, this morning, I went through that one, and found it.
So, at this point I've spent about 2 hours trying to look up information about this reader, another hour or two troubleshooting and re-ordering the wires, and probably half an hour digging through trash trying to find it.
I've given up on trying to use it with the older ECS K7VZA based system. Instead, I'll put something down there that will also add front USB hookups.
I would like to put this card reader on my more modern Biostar M7VIT Pro motherboard based system. It has more modern USB 2 pinouts on the motherboard. It already has front USB built into the case. Currently, one of the 5.25" drive bays is taken up by a card reader. Putting this thing in there will let me free up a bay for an optical drive.
My only problem now is that I am all confused about the wire order that I need. I've messed with the order of the wires several times, lost the notecard that supposedly told me what I needed, and am hoping that somebody out there can see what is wrong right away when I describe this.
The end of the wire I have to plug in to the pin header looks almost exactly like the old speaker wire hookup that you hook directly to a motherboard. It has 5 holes, the 5th of which was originally filled with a plug of plastic. (b4 I drilled it out)
Now, I have the following wires going to the holes:
1 2 3 4 5
black green white empty red
Can I just reorder these and get the card reader to work properly? Anyone have any suggestions on what order to put the colors in?
Thanks!
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