Fix Your Desktop

Filed under: peripherals hacks

This simple and clever guide to installing an always on USB port comes from the Team Hack-a-Day forums (originally created for the team's Folding@home efforts). [Cerberus] added a USB port to his computer case that always has power, even when the computer is off. The power comes from the +5VDC standby line in the motherboard connector. You can use this new port to charge any USB based device.

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