How do you connect this thing??? Confused.

[Pez D Spencer]

want to get one of the Matrix Orbital LCD front panel displays but Im a bit confused about how it connects. Follow this link http://www.svc.com/mx431.html and you will see what I mean.

The thing has a USB cable that goes INSIDE the case. WTF? Are you supposed to run the cable to outside your case somehow and then plug it into a USB port? It would seem that way to me because there are no USB ports inside any PC I have ever seen.

I found one review of the product but as far it installation it just said "installation was simple". It didn't say anything about how it actually connected.

Look at the second picture of the device. You will see the USB cable I am talking about. I just don't get it.

Thanks.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Just about all current mainboards have an USB header on them, usually several.


...Galvanized

 

[ShellGuy]

At the back, a 3 feet A-B USB communications cable is attached to the unit. An internal USB cable is also available separately if you choose to run the display from the USB header on your motherboard. The connection for such a cable is located at the end of the USB connector on the LCD itself.


here

Will G.

 

[vanvock]

🙂 Why do you need to know the wind direction inside your case?

 

[Pez D Spencer]

I looked at the manual and I see that there is an alternate USB connector for connection to the internal USB headers. Power can also be supplied by a floppy power connector.

 

[eXx08]

Here there is a internal USB plug just for that sort of thing.

 

[Pez D Spencer]

Im just going to use the alternate USB connector and run it to a USB header right on the board.