USB bracket question

[Drexl]

I bought a bracket to add 2 USB ports on one of the expansion slots. However, the wire block has the sides reversed. What I mean is that the place where there is no pin is on the left (if plugged in) but on my motherboard it's the other way around with the no-pin hole on the right.

10 9
o x <-- This row is reversed on the block compared to the board.
o o
o o
o o
o o
2 1

Can I go ahead and use this anyway if I clear out the hole where no wire would be? (It's covered to prevent improper installation.) Looking at the pin assignments, each column of pins are for one port, and the extra, fifth wire (10) on one of the ports actually doesn't connect to anything. It's just there so they can make blocks that can't be plugged in backwards. As long as the red wires (1 and 2) are still on the bottom, there wouldn't be anything wrong with doing this, right?

 

[NoxTek]

Check your motherboard's manual to see what the pins are labeled as, if those bottom 2 pins are both labeled as +5VDC or +VCC then yes, you can do what you're asking. Ideally a third party USB bracket should seperate both ports into two seperate connectors so you won't run into situations like this.

 

[Drexl]

Okay, thanks. There was a little white thing that looked like a tiny golf tee that pulled out easily from the no-pin hole.