Hello again, usb seems to be the source of all my troubles in life

I was given an old desktop computer  my INTENTION was just to play around with it I didn't expect it to work but amazingly it does - it's an unknown model of Inteva which I already learned went belly up around 2000, I think the computer was purchased around 1999 so there isn't very much info available. The motherboard I tracked down as a Biostar M6TLI, it's running WINDOWS 98, 128mb of Ram, 12GB hard drive, pentium 2 processor.

At first I thought it didn't have USB connectors, but I opened it up because there are 2 ports on the back clearly labled "USB" and I couldn't see anything connecting them to the motherboard, on closer inspection I found each one has a thick white plug with a cord running strait to the motherboard... so I thought I'd hook that computer up to the net and see about doing a few things to it but when I went to plug in the USB plug I was amazed that the ports were too small! Being a bit dimm in the room I thought I was wrong and tried to force one, there was a little spark and I quickly gave up - so what are these ports if not USB ports?

How do I/can I INSTALL a card to get USB ports on this computer?what is your mouse and keyboard plugged into???

You can get adapters for PCI*? INPUT to USB (green and purple inputs to usb)

Then from a usb port you can buy a USB HUB /Dock for many USB ports

From there you can daisy chain your daisy chains until you computer shorts your houses power

You werent forcing them in upside down were you? Quote from: NOT ADMIN :P on APRIL 18, 2008, 12:29:42 AM

what is your mouse and keyboard plugged into???

You can get adapters for PCI*? input to USB (green and purple inputs to usb)

Then from a usb port you can buy a USB HUB /Dock for many USB ports

From there you can daisy chain your daisy chains until you computer shorts your houses power

You werent forcing them in upside down were you?