The same thing happened to my motherboard, so I just bought a USB 3 pci-e card, but props to you and if I had thought of replacing a pin I probably would of taken a pin from one of the headers that were not in use
With a broken pin stuck in the connector, you may succeed by tapping the connector on a hard surface like the edge of the desk or something like that with side where the pin is, slightly over the edge(so not to tap in the pin deeper).
I think that might've worked with this one. The moment I poked it with a blade edge to try and pry it, I nudged it deeper in. I didn't expect it to be loose.
@@Adamant_IT do you think the broken pin ID can cause blue screen errors? Cus thats what i got, and got faulty memory error, but the diagnostic memory didnt found anything.
Wow! Graham, you are the prince of fiddly bits. I would have never tried separating that plug to go digging for the pin. You are just remarkable. What a fun video to watch.
Great video, very interesting. I've bent/broken enough of these USB 3 headers in my time. They are very badly designed and this is a helpful video. Thanks.
Excellent video!🥳🤯🎉❤️🥰👍 I never realised the USB 3.0 header shroud surrounding the pins was removable! I have an itx board where a piece of the shroud just disintegrated on a fairly new board and it happens to be blue on a black PCB…….I might give it a go to replace it and see if it can be done on my Aorus itx board. Thanks for this video! I always learn new things from your channel despite not having any soldering skills 😞. It’s interesting to always learn a new technique (no “that’s what she said” joke references pls 🤦🤦♀️) for repairs on electronics etc. love your content, detailed information supplied and your weekly chats. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 🍻
Well, Graham, I was screaming at the computer not once but twice, once when you put the plastic shroud on upside-down, but even more so when you reassembled the motherboard with USB3 lead with the blank in the wrong place and see it turned up at the edge, and clearly seated incorrectly. it is a good job that there were no voltage issues, or it would have become a bit of a costly mistake!
Now I'm inspired. I've broken pins in the USB 3.0 front panel header on 3 different motherboards. I had no idea that it would be that easy to repair. Thanks a million!
When I first built my PC I accidentally bent a pin in the side-facing 3.0 header. It was the top right pin (If you're looking from clip-side up) and for almost a year I just used the other header which faces straight off the board. Recently I was able to fix the bend by using the small straw that comes with compressed air cans. It was still slightly bigger than the pin, but I was able to carefully leverage at the bend and get it mostly straight. Surprisingly, even with a slight bend, it still works. The other header I used for a 3.0 to type E adapter so I could use my front USB-C header, even if at a lower speed.
You have a Quick air station, I just got hold of the 861DW myself and taking that connector out and replacing it would be easy. Nice your using the pinecil also cracking good value they are, I use a hakko 888D as my daily driver that and the Quick makes embedded level micro controller / micro soldering sop and msop with a few QFN's a breeze.
Quick 861DW is nearly twice as powerful as the one he's having. I ordered an Atten 862D, which unfortunately, got stuck in customs clearance and I'm having a hard time trying to get it out. Quick 861DW and Atten 862D are pretty much the same thing they say. Many newcomers are choosing Atten over Quick due to its affordability. A preheating device can help a lot when using an underpowered hot air station.
I am glad you were able to fix the problem. I did think that the extension cable was not fully seated, but at a slight angle after you plugged it in/as you were fitting it back into the PC.
Same thing happened to me with my lian li dynamic o11 with the 3 bottom fans not enough space and broke the bottom right pin you’ve inspired me to fix it my self im very handi with a soldering tool so I want to thank you for showing on how to fix a broken pin
I've been using the extension headers in all my builds since removing the usb3 header from my own Asus ROG Strix X570-I Gaming motherboard took the housing with the cable despite using tweezers etc. The damn thing was stuck fast. While the extensions have the opposite problem of coming off too easily, they look far better in the build and you don't get the problem of connectors that have welded themselves together.
Yeah, I my 011 I used a USB3 extension to get around this. Sadly, there are a lot of crap cables out there, but there are a couple of good ones. I've been using them in builds for quite a while... because screw that USB3 cable. Never seen one so bad it snapped off though. Crap...should have waited 'til the end since that's exactly what you did,
I've snapped a pin off a USB header before. I fixed it by creating a slightly larger pin using a paperclip and shoving it into the plug. The contact of the makeshift pin with the left over nub in the socket was just enough to make a good enough connection.
Some time ago got the budget H310 board (for cheap) to build and resale as a part of a computer, the board was working fine, but after the assembly I discovered that one of the front usb 3 ports wasn't working, and indeed the vbus pin (the single one on the bottom) was snapped, so I've actually managed to take out a bit that left and replace it without removing plastic or the whole connector, the new lin I've took from broken amplifier board with plenty of connectors similar to rgb header, wasn't that easy but neither to hard.
Those plugs just need a bit of switch cleaner, servisol is great sprayed in before you plug in,same thing with those power mobo sockets,they can be very stiff to push plugs in,allow to dry before plugging in.🤖
Dude that video was awesome. I just broke that fucking tiny pin in my new motherboard which I bought literally a week ago. I was really anxious for couple days and I really relieved after seeing that video. Thank you.
I get to this video looking for the procedure to repair the same problem on my motherboard, after I solved it, I read the motherboard's manual, it was pin 10, not conected :D Anyway, thanks for the advise. Great video.
I had to use a usb 3 cable from Amazon I desoldered the old connector and sacrificed the one from a cable. Hate how they lift off the board so used some gorilla hot glue to keep that thing on lol. Also had a issue where my x299 apex usb 3 wouldn't be accessable in the phanteks evolve X case because of the drive cages literally blocked the ports looked on amazon sure enough they have a cable for this and it's nice and flat not chonky 🤣.
If this was my build that bottom row of fans would be history. The build appears to have more than enough fans for useful cooling and the fans in the bottom are just asking for trouble.
Men that have to boast about what graphics card they have installed, are compensating for other smaller parts. Not all of us have "graphic card envy" that a lot of men on here, including Graham, have a bad case of. We do not rate the "pc" based on the "graphics card".
I have a trick for removing the pins from sockets like that .. tap it down rapidly in quick succession on the end of a desk with the part with the pin is stuck hanging over it so its free to fall out...
Just a shame my 2 month old MSI B550m pro VDH uses a right angled USB3 front header connection! And yes,. I managed to bend and snap a pin on it :-/ So a PCIE usb 3.0 card on its way, as well as a replacement motherboard header. At least I'll be able to use the PCIE header to get things up and running, until I get my soldering skills back again before replacing the motherboard header...
Well, I bent mine and didn't realise and was like oh why have I only got one port working. However think I am going to do what you said at the beginning and run with 1 as my board is a b550 gaming plus and got plenty of rear usb ahhah
i managed to pull the socket off the mobo, it just would not come out. needless to say, i cut the groove off on the cable and now its fine! and the housing went back onto the mobo just fine
I'd have gone for that if it was a case of most of the pins being mashed flat, but for one or two pins, I think single-pin replacement is a lot less hassle!
In my experience the best way to remove the plastic plug for the USB3.0 header is to just use the front panel connector itself. The damn connectors always seem to pull the plastic with them when you try to unplug the cable.
I just had a Asus vivobook that had stopped charging. Windows thought it was charging but the battery was not taking any charge. Sent it back to Asus they have had a look at it and said the motherboard was faulty and now I have been refunded. It would of been awesome to send it to Adamant It as it would of made a good LFC video.
Instead of splitting the adapter head apart I would have tried taping the head against something to get it to come at least partially out and then grab it with tweezers. Just a thought.
I managed somehow to bent that pin on one of my motherboards. It was bent down at the bottom of the connector. I was able to straighten it again without breaking. In my main pc I added an expension card for an extra usb 3 header for my card reader. Iwould use that as a replacement for a broken pin, but I don’t know if you can use expansion cards with the vertical gpu mount.
Good day Graham, to add a set of USB 3.0 ports to the back of my computer I pulled the 19 pin plug out, a very tight space with a lot of wiggling. The plug came off along with the shroud, but no pins were bent or broken. Now when I put everything back together I hear the connecting sound of the computer accepting a USB flash drive, but no flash drive shows on the screen. I also hear the disconnect sound when I pull out the flash drive. Do you have any ideas on this?
Get some dental tools, life saver for these types of repairs. Also curious if their is a 3.0 performance hit with those extensions. May have to grab one to see.
A friend messaged me today saying they'd experienced performance issues with these extensions. It's something I'm going to look into. I suspect it might be luck of the draw, in the same way that I had the dead one in this video.
Nice work! Would it have been possible to have put a drop of solder on a pin and then heated the solder up to join it to the broken pin to get it out? If done quick enough, it shouldn't do any damage to the plug, rather than 'opening' the plug up to get the pin out?
That's a good idea actually... definitely something to try. The possible issue there is that if the solder flows into the connector, it'll weld the broken pin inside it forever. So could be a risky move. One to try out on a scrap header wire sometime though...
You can get connector pigtails off ebay and splice them back on. It's a little bit of a pain especially if the wires are shielded, but not too bad. Edit: Really like the extension adapter solution. I'll buy a bunch of those to use all the time. The regular USB 3.0 cable is stupid.
shoutout to the customer for their build big fan of it
Thank you
Yeah great looking rig.
hue hue
The same thing happened to my motherboard, so I just bought a USB 3 pci-e card, but props to you and if I had thought of replacing a pin I probably would of taken a pin from one of the headers that were not in use
With a broken pin stuck in the connector, you may succeed by tapping the connector on a hard surface like the edge of the desk or something like that with side where the pin is, slightly over the edge(so not to tap in the pin deeper).
I think that might've worked with this one. The moment I poked it with a blade edge to try and pry it, I nudged it deeper in. I didn't expect it to be loose.
Just posted that. Sorry I didnt read far enough down to see your post. :(
@@Adamant_IT do you think the broken pin ID can cause blue screen errors? Cus thats what i got, and got faulty memory error, but the diagnostic memory didnt found anything.
@@VIGONIYes, I believe so! I broke one pin and got a BSOD - something with memory too.
Wow! Graham, you are the prince of fiddly bits. I would have never tried separating that plug to go digging for the pin. You are just remarkable. What a fun video to watch.
There's just something so soothing about the intro, have been watching for a long time and I love listening to it everytime
Graham makes the best thinking noises with his mouth . ie hmm etc etc. Stay safe.
hi wellibob!
@@mikesunboxing How's it going Michael 👍
@@Wellibob68 good mate, just checking out what beardy is up to today :-)
Me: You've got the thing upside down!
Graham: I've got the thing upside down. :D
Great video, very interesting. I've bent/broken enough of these USB 3 headers in my time. They are very badly designed and this is a helpful video. Thanks.
yo bro is it fixable ? my connector snapped out of its place when i tried to unplug but no pins were broken or bent
I really didn't think that could be fixed that easy great video.
Excellent video!🥳🤯🎉❤️🥰👍 I never realised the USB 3.0 header shroud surrounding the pins was removable! I have an itx board where a piece of the shroud just disintegrated on a fairly new board and it happens to be blue on a black PCB…….I might give it a go to replace it and see if it can be done on my Aorus itx board. Thanks for this video! I always learn new things from your channel despite not having any soldering skills 😞. It’s interesting to always learn a new technique (no “that’s what she said” joke references pls 🤦🤦♀️) for repairs on electronics etc. love your content, detailed information supplied and your weekly chats. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 🍻
I like the 90° adapters...makes everything look more clean, got one for USB 3.0 and one for the 24 pin
almost had this happen to me on my first build was able to bend the pin back with a razer though. damn those usb 3 connectors lol
Excellent, way above my paygrade as there is no way my shaky old hands and trifocals could do that, well done.
Well, I broke one of these today, but that's the least of my problems with my build. Good to know I can attempt a repair.
The video I have been searching for years. Unfortunatelly the USB 3 headers are really a source of headaches.
The idea of using that flex cable is a quite good solution.
Well, Graham, I was screaming at the computer not once but twice, once when you put the plastic shroud on upside-down, but even more so when you reassembled the motherboard with USB3 lead with the blank in the wrong place and see it turned up at the edge, and clearly seated incorrectly. it is a good job that there were no voltage issues, or it would have become a bit of a costly mistake!
Now I'm inspired. I've broken pins in the USB 3.0 front panel header on 3 different motherboards. I had no idea that it would be that easy to repair. Thanks a million!
When I first built my PC I accidentally bent a pin in the side-facing 3.0 header. It was the top right pin (If you're looking from clip-side up) and for almost a year I just used the other header which faces straight off the board. Recently I was able to fix the bend by using the small straw that comes with compressed air cans. It was still slightly bigger than the pin, but I was able to carefully leverage at the bend and get it mostly straight. Surprisingly, even with a slight bend, it still works. The other header I used for a 3.0 to type E adapter so I could use my front USB-C header, even if at a lower speed.
Thankyou for this video! 2 pins have broken on my USB 3.0 Header on my Tomahawk board, this is literally going to help me so much!
You have a Quick air station, I just got hold of the 861DW myself and taking that connector out and replacing it would be easy. Nice your using the pinecil also cracking good value they are, I use a hakko 888D as my daily driver that and the Quick makes embedded level micro controller / micro soldering sop and msop with a few QFN's a breeze.
Quick 861DW is nearly twice as powerful as the one he's having. I ordered an Atten 862D, which unfortunately, got stuck in customs clearance and I'm having a hard time trying to get it out. Quick 861DW and Atten 862D are pretty much the same thing they say. Many newcomers are choosing Atten over Quick due to its affordability. A preheating device can help a lot when using an underpowered hot air station.
@@roseelectronics4582 Customs hehe dont get me started I have so many sensors and other IC's stuck in customs haha its hilarious.
I am glad you were able to fix the problem. I did think that the extension cable was not fully seated, but at a slight angle after you plugged it in/as you were fitting it back into the PC.
Same thing happened to me with my lian li dynamic o11 with the 3 bottom fans not enough space and broke the bottom right pin you’ve inspired me to fix it my self im very handi with a soldering tool so I want to thank you for showing on how to fix a broken pin
I think Adam could have squeezed in a couple more case fans in that pc whilst he was at it.😂
I've been using the extension headers in all my builds since removing the usb3 header from my own Asus ROG Strix X570-I Gaming motherboard took the housing with the cable despite using tweezers etc. The damn thing was stuck fast. While the extensions have the opposite problem of coming off too easily, they look far better in the build and you don't get the problem of connectors that have welded themselves together.
...more helpful than you will ever know...thank you
The synthis music always slaps at the beginning x3
Yeah, I my 011 I used a USB3 extension to get around this. Sadly, there are a lot of crap cables out there, but there are a couple of good ones. I've been using them in builds for quite a while... because screw that USB3 cable. Never seen one so bad it snapped off though.
Crap...should have waited 'til the end since that's exactly what you did,
I've snapped a pin off a USB header before. I fixed it by creating a slightly larger pin using a paperclip and shoving it into the plug. The contact of the makeshift pin with the left over nub in the socket was just enough to make a good enough connection.
I was screaming at the screen "ITS BACKWARDS ITS BACKWARDS" and then you captioned "this gets fixed later" and I was like 😮💨
Very clever, I never would have thought of doing that. I probably would have bought a PCIe card with a connector. Excellent.
Nice Job Graham ,,,, Thanks for Your Time
Good job mate. I hate de-soldering those pins. It can be so easy to accidentally add too much heat
Had success with a syringe needle in the past. At least it enabled me to slowly make it stick out a bit just enough to pull it with fine needle pliers
Fantastically useful vid, I just got a used board and noticed a broken pin. I thought I'd have to replace the whole socket!
Angled adapters are almost the greatest thing since sliced bread. You should try the 90 degree 24 pin ATX adapters and the 180 degree PCIE adapters.
i've been waiting for this one for ages good job ! now I feel a bit more confident to do it myself.
Some time ago got the budget H310 board (for cheap) to build and resale as a part of a computer, the board was working fine, but after the assembly I discovered that one of the front usb 3 ports wasn't working, and indeed the vbus pin (the single one on the bottom) was snapped, so I've actually managed to take out a bit that left and replace it without removing plastic or the whole connector, the new lin I've took from broken amplifier board with plenty of connectors similar to rgb header, wasn't that easy but neither to hard.
Great job - well done !
Very good work
Brilliant, love the fix vids. Thanks Graham.
i had exactly this on my b350 MB with that connector i might actually give this a go seems a nice easy fix not having to remove the whole connecter
Those plugs just need a bit of switch cleaner, servisol is great sprayed in before you plug in,same thing with those power mobo sockets,they can be very stiff to push plugs in,allow to dry before plugging in.🤖
thank you, great help
amazing tutorial buddy
Nice work.
Dude that video was awesome. I just broke that fucking tiny pin in my new motherboard which I bought literally a week ago. I was really anxious for couple days and I really relieved after seeing that video. Thank you.
Excellent Video 👍👍
Hot glue to pull the pin out has worked for me in the past
14:13 Graham.exe has stopped responding
good job .keep the video like this
I get to this video looking for the procedure to repair the same problem on my motherboard, after I solved it, I read the motherboard's manual, it was pin 10, not conected :D
Anyway, thanks for the advise. Great video.
I had to use a usb 3 cable from Amazon I desoldered the old connector and sacrificed the one from a cable.
Hate how they lift off the board so used some gorilla hot glue to keep that thing on lol.
Also had a issue where my x299 apex usb 3 wouldn't be accessable in the phanteks evolve X case because of the drive cages literally blocked the ports looked on amazon sure enough they have a cable for this and it's nice and flat not chonky 🤣.
Well done graham, a very neat job :-D
I was thinking of sewing needles to pry the pin out.
Handy for cleaning between i.c pins as well. :-D
thank you for the video I'm gonna be doing this
Another great vid, Graham. And, yeah, that connector is straight up garbage!
I've got that same MB! Love it!
just got a MSI B550 Pro VDH WiFi with multiple missing / broken pins, do you think a novice could swap out the whole port and pins?
If this was my build that bottom row of fans would be history. The build appears to have more than enough fans for useful cooling and the fans in the bottom are just asking for trouble.
damn ! you're a great pc tech! great work Graham!
i guess il give it a trz then. great video btw
Men that have to boast about what graphics card they have installed, are compensating for other smaller parts. Not all of us have "graphic card envy" that a lot of men on here, including Graham, have a bad case of. We do not rate the "pc" based on the "graphics card".
Says the guy with 2 inches running a 1030
good job
Maximus XI is older now and it's relatively cheap. Prob you are mistaken it with newest which are $500+. This is around $250-270.
i hate how you make everything you do look so easy! 😂👍
I have a trick for removing the pins from sockets like that .. tap it down rapidly in quick succession on the end of a desk with the part with the pin is stuck hanging over it so its free to fall out...
Great Fix my friend!!
Just a shame my 2 month old MSI B550m pro VDH uses a right angled USB3 front header connection! And yes,. I managed to bend and snap a pin on it :-/ So a PCIE usb 3.0 card on its way, as well as a replacement motherboard header. At least I'll be able to use the PCIE header to get things up and running, until I get my soldering skills back again before replacing the motherboard header...
Very good, luck is made not given..
Well, I bent mine and didn't realise and was like oh why have I only got one port working. However think I am going to do what you said at the beginning and run with 1 as my board is a b550 gaming plus and got plenty of rear usb ahhah
i managed to pull the socket off the mobo, it just would not come out. needless to say, i cut the groove off on the cable and now its fine! and the housing went back onto the mobo just fine
I think I would have replaced the connector and used a solder sucker gun to remove the pins then re-solder the new connector back:-)
I'd have gone for that if it was a case of most of the pins being mashed flat, but for one or two pins, I think single-pin replacement is a lot less hassle!
In my experience the best way to remove the plastic plug for the USB3.0 header is to just use the front panel connector itself. The damn connectors always seem to pull the plastic with them when you try to unplug the cable.
To get the whole socket out, use low melt solder!
Love it!
Man, this just happened to me. Too bad I don't live anywhere near you and I don't have soldering skills.
I just had a Asus vivobook that had stopped charging. Windows thought it was charging but the battery was not taking any charge. Sent it back to Asus they have had a look at it and said the motherboard was faulty and now I have been refunded. It would of been awesome to send it to Adamant It as it would of made a good LFC video.
Instead of splitting the adapter head apart I would have tried taping the head against something to get it to come at least partially out and then grab it with tweezers. Just a thought.
Needs more fans, obviously lol
Great fix 👍 internal USB 3.0 headers are terrible design really. I'm going to buy some of those flexible extensions.
great job!
had the same issue with my corsair case. 8.99 usb 3 small form factor extension and problem solved.
Great Vid as usual! but i'm concerned about the FOD (foreign object debris) the old pin thrown away behind, that could end up anywhere! :D
just bought a new in box(apparently) asrock a320m board with exactly the same issue cost me £10 make a nice pc for my daughter nice easy fix
Three fans to one connector is convenient but also if one fan dies you have to replace three fans.
tnx for instruction
Where do you get your music for these videos? I love it! lol :)
😮🗯️Fan overload,14!?
That happened to me when I bent them but I was now being more careful
I managed somehow to bent that pin on one of my motherboards. It was bent down at the bottom of the connector. I was able to straighten it again without breaking. In my main pc I added an expension card for an extra usb 3 header for my card reader. Iwould use that as a replacement for a broken pin, but I don’t know if you can use expansion cards with the vertical gpu mount.
Both of the two DIY PCs I've built have had USB 3 header issues. The plastic bracket that sits around the pins are so flimsy. They're such trash!
Good day Graham, to add a set of USB 3.0 ports to the back of my computer I pulled the 19 pin plug out, a very tight space with a lot of wiggling. The plug came off along with the shroud, but no pins were bent or broken. Now when I put everything back together I hear the connecting sound of the computer accepting a USB flash drive, but no flash drive shows on the screen. I also hear the disconnect sound when I pull out the flash drive. Do you have any ideas on this?
Glue on a USB 3 header. Sounds familiar.
Get some dental tools, life saver for these types of repairs. Also curious if their is a 3.0 performance hit with those extensions. May have to grab one to see.
A friend messaged me today saying they'd experienced performance issues with these extensions. It's something I'm going to look into. I suspect it might be luck of the draw, in the same way that I had the dead one in this video.
Be honest, you were thinking of power supplies when you were putting the plastic clip back on the connector.
that case really should have a cooling fan
ikr, I can't see any in it
Nice work!
Would it have been possible to have put a drop of solder on a pin and then heated the solder up to join it to the broken pin to get it out? If done quick enough, it shouldn't do any damage to the plug, rather than 'opening' the plug up to get the pin out?
That's a good idea actually... definitely something to try. The possible issue there is that if the solder flows into the connector, it'll weld the broken pin inside it forever. So could be a risky move. One to try out on a scrap header wire sometime though...
@@Adamant_IT if you solder with it at the right angle, you’d only need a second for it to meld. 🤔😊
Clearly the owner of this PC is a fan of the colour purple ... and case fans come to that
You can get connector pigtails off ebay and splice them back on. It's a little bit of a pain especially if the wires are shielded, but not too bad.
Edit: Really like the extension adapter solution. I'll buy a bunch of those to use all the time. The regular USB 3.0 cable is stupid.
was that CA glue you used? What about a rubber cement so it slightly melts the plastic housing and leaves fused plastic instead ?
Yea I used CA because that's what I had to hand.
Interesting to see this done with ease, can this be done on a 90 degree header?