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January 30, 2014, 11:39:38 PM |
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No. You must have power, there is no power connection through the USB cable. if you look at the PCB, the power pins are not connected at the motherboard end.
You must use a USB 3.0 cable, a USB 2.0 cable will NOT work as it does not have enough pins. You also need a non-standard type of cable with double A-male ends. Good luck trying to buy one of these cables separately.
The small socket contains a built in presence shorting link, which means that you do not need a jumper wire to activate the slot.
Issues:
The SMBus pins in the PCI-e slot are not connected. Some monitoring or diagnostic software may have difficulty working without these connections.
Also remember, that when powering the riser, you must power it from the same PSU as is powering the motherboard. You WILL fry the motherboard if you have 1 PSU powering the mobo, and a different PSU powering the riser.
This type of riser doesn't work very well at PCI-E v3 mode. If you have a mobo which uses PCI-E v3, you should select a lower speed in the BIOS, or you may get system instability (or card not detected).
The slot end of the connector and the USB plugs themselves are very loose. You need to use some hot-melt glue to keep the riser in the slot, and the USB cables attached.
There are a number of HK sellers on ebay whicih will post to the UK. I got mine in about 10 days, and paid £12 each inc postage.
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