Soyo Dragon and USB probs

[GregRad]

I have the original Dragon and cannot seem to get the additional USB headers to function. Needless to say, it is driving me crazy! The bios is set for 'All Functional' and XP sees all three headers for a total of 6 ports. Yet, nothing I plus into them is detected. I have tried other USB motherboard connectors and the result stays the same.
Is there some special cable you need to be using? Am I missing something....I feel it is in the final connection, but everything fits and everything has been swapped to check for failures. Any ideas or anyone have a similar problem?
Cheers
Greg

 

[bltst2]

I had the same problem with my Dragon+, and enabling the "All USB" in the BIOS did the trick. Maybe the cables are bad? Maybe they are not seated correctly....

-BT

 

[GregRad]

I tried something last night that worked and I am not too sure it should have worked! I have an Asus usb card that came with a Slot A motherboard. It has the correct cable to connect to the USB header so I tried it and it worked. However, there are a bunch of components on the Asus card. On the original Dragon, do you need a card, not just a cable with pin connectors???
I rechecked the bios, all usb are enabled, the show up in XP and, with the Asus card, they work, with a straight cable, $12.99 at CompUSA, they seem to not work.
Weird...
Cheers
Greg