Trying to connect usb 3.0 hub to motherboard.

[Agent 0008]

She's up and running. I had to wait for a new cable from newegg (longer) to connect it but she's working. I ran the cable from the outer 3.0 slot thru the pci slot on the back by drilling a whole thru the metal and installing a runner grommet around the cable so it won't get worn.

I was originally thinking of connecting it niternally which would have made it just a 2.0 hub but decided to stay with the newer 3.0 as I shouldn't need any more additional usb ports.

Thanks again.

[Train]

Glad to hear you now have sorted it out and how you went about it.
May need to do that trick in the future myself!

[Agent 0008]

Ran into a problem.

If I plug everything in while the computer is running everything is fine but if I restart the computer it freeze when starting up unless I unplug the 3.0 hub. I checked thru the bios making sure it wasn't trying to boot from the hub but found nothing about booting from usb.

I read that possibly the usb legacy 2.0 could be causing a problem but haven't tried turning it off as I didn't want to lose my mouse or keyboard.

One thing that pops up is the overclocking of the computer. When starting it occassionally shows a few of my CPU cores aren't activated (6 total) and once I disconnect the hub and reboot it says I need to run set up as my overclock needs to be adjusted.

[jdc2000]

It may be time to check for a BIOS update.

[SuperSparks]

And updating the chipset drivers would be worth a try too, if there are any newer ones available.

[Agent 0008]

I use Driver Agent to make sure I have the latest drivers.

I went ahead and turned off my legacy 2.0 in bios and it changed nothing, still froze on restart.

[SuperSparks]

It is possible that you have got a defective USB hub. Is there any chance you could try plugging it in to a different computer and see if that will boot?

[Agent 0008]

I'll give it a shot.

[Agent 0008]

Found out the card connects just fine as a usb 2.0 card but only has problems ceonnecting as a usb 3.0 I guess I will hang on to it and connect it internally as a usb 2.0

[SuperSparks]

It may just be a driver issue in that case. You might want to check for updated drivers, and have another go at connecting it to a USB3 port when they are available.

[Agent 0008]

I talked to a person who works on computers and was told they are a lot of issues with usb 3.0 I was informed to be patent and that eventually a bios update or an updated 3.0 driver would be available that should fix this issue.