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Motherboard missing ports?

dmeanor
By dmeanor
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I bought a new case, and put my old motherboard in there. I noticed that there are missing ports things on my motherboard. Is that normal or do I have to purchase them separately? 

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For the first picture (missing USB 3 front panel connector) your motherboard just doesn't have that. It seems to be a lower end board, so that's not too surprising. The missing IDE header is also not surprising as IDE has been outdated for a long time now. 

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Interesting. Looking at pictures of the board online, they don't have them either. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the PCB is used for several different boards to keep cost down, and this particular version just doesn't have these features. Looking at the USB 3 circuitry, it looks like there is no controller installed as well, so that makes sense. As for the IDE port, you're not gonna miss that one, horribly outdated standard.

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The connectors were never there from the start. 

Usually there's other models that use the same base circuit board but add more connectors.

 

Another possibility is that the manufacturer (Asrock in this case) was contracted by a company like HP or Dell to make an OEM motherboard for them with specific features and then re-use the design to release some models under their brand. 

So for example, an OEM motherboard could have had the IDE connectors installed along with the IDE controller chip (because AM1 chipset doesn't have an IDE controller built in) but they're releasing their own branded model

 

 

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