Front USB Ports

I'm hoping someone might be able to help.
I have an MSI 945P Platinum motherboard with an Aspire X-Navigator case. Running Windows XP. My back USB ports work fine with no problems.
But if I plug anything into the front USB ports, the system freezes. I've checked the connections for both USB1 and USB2 - there is no 10th wire or USBOC connected. But the system still freezes every time I connect anything. Is there anything else I can try, or do I just forget about it & use the back ports? Can anyone help? Thanks.....

okay, i looked again at the usb header
and there was a wire connected to pin 10
so i cut it
started up windows, and amazingly, my front usb ports are now working
i keep plugging in & disconnecting devices - everything i plug in the front ports now work
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Quote from: ceckardt on 23-January-06, 05:53:53
the system im building resides inside a CODEGEN Briza A Series ATX tower (Part Number E6097), my question has to do with how im i supposed to connect the frontal usb ports of the case to my MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum board (MS-7125). the board features 3 yellow colored 9 pin (pin 9 is a key (no pin)) standard USB 2.0 connectors, while my case comes with two frontal USB ports with 2 sets of connectors arranged as follows:
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+1 3-pin connector with red, white, green wires labeled "USB 2"
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:-D)Hello guys,
as promised I come back here to give the results of my tests... and I have to say that you saved my day (even if I had to open back 60 secured cases).
So the solution was the right one, when I unplugged the "ground" end of the front USB connector cable from the USBOC pin, those connectors finally worked as expected with USB 2.0 compliant devices.
So thank you really much for this very usefull information !
And even if maybe it's not only MSI's fault, I still believe that more information on those connectors in the user's manual would be really usefull (who knows what USBOC means except a few people and who could imagine that pluggin on it a "ground" cable would make it unserviceable ??). And who ever saw a user's manual bundled with a case ?? it's pretty unusual
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