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Lesson 1: USB and 1394 headers are keyed the same
Lesson 2: USB and 1394 are not electrically compatible
Lesson 3: Plugging your thumb drive into a USB port that's connected to 1394 will turn said thumb drive into an expensive, inert keychain.

I lost two thumb drives before I figured out what was going on. :banghead:
 
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Huh, I wonder if you could claim warranty on that? I've had a few thumb drives killed (i.e. damaged) by friends & family ~ not my fault I lent them :shadedshu:
 
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Interesting. It's not often that incompatible things are keyed the same.
 
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Been so long that I never heard IEEE 1394 got to google it so find out its firewire. Those still exist on current motherboards? I guess "fire" in the firewire is name appropriate here pardon the pun. I am sorry that you lost those usb stick, I hope nothing important is in them :(
 
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Hm, that interesting, i never used firewire, but i had some usb/fw back bracket. But still always needed just usb (in my case).
Btw, on next time make sure, you are using Lesson 0: check your motherboard's manual.
 
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It says not to do that in the manual :D
 
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MIRTAZAPINE said:
Been so long that I never heard IEEE 1394 got to google it so find out its firewire. Those still exist on current motherboards? I guess "fire" in the firewire is name appropriate here pardon the pun. I am sorry that you lost those usb stick, I hope nothing important is in them :(
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Firewire absolutely does not exist on current motherboards. This was on an X58 machine. "Important" stuff? Not really. I have a backup image of the one around; there shouldn't be too much on it that isn't easily recoverable. The other was just a Win7 boot stick. Silver lining: I didn't actually pay for either one. The 16GB was a gift, and the 8GB I salvaged (along with a handful of others) from work.

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Huh, I wonder if you could claim warranty on that? I've had a few thumb drives killed (i.e. damaged) by friends & family ~ not my fault I lent them :shadedshu:
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Ha! Even outside of user error, everything is so far out of warranty that the RMA department might charge me for wasting their time. :p
 
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hat said:
Interesting. It's not often that incompatible things are keyed the same.
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Well the newer AsRock boards seem to be keyed totally different now.

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How ever the addon brackets are keyed the same, thats why i always follow the wire from the bracket to which one is which hehe, o yeah Mobo tells you which is firewire and USB.

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Voluman said:
Btw, on next time make sure, you are using Lesson 0: check your motherboard's manual.
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^^ THIS ^^

When in doubt, whip it out, hahaha :)

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but IMHO, if you don't know the difference between 1394 & USB ports or are too lazy to look it up beforehand , then perhaps you should not be using computers.....
 
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It was an honest mistake.. they are keyed the same.. it could happen to anyone, especially if its late when you put the rig together.
 
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bonehead123 said:
^^ THIS ^^

When in doubt, whip it out, hahaha :)

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but IMHO, if you don't know the difference between 1394 & USB ports or are too lazy to look it up beforehand , then perhaps you should not be using computers.....
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Rest assured, I know the difference; not my first rodeo. When the headers are laid out like this, and you're in a hurry and/or not paying attention, though... Well, let's just say we all carry the idiot ball at some point or other. :)

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