I put in the USB card last night. I was able to actually print again, so that's a relief. I didn't get a chance to test out my backup to external USB drive, because if it flakes out I don't want it to wipe out the volume that's on there like it has done before. I currently have backups of my parents' computer on there and I just reformatted Windows yesterday and haven't restored anything yet, so losing that stuff would be very bad.
My card and the card in Cobra's picture both have an internal USB connection. What is this for? I have never seen an internal device that uses a standard USB connector. I was hoping my card would have pins like my motherboard does so I could plug in the top panel's USB ports, but alas it doesn't. Just the standard external port type.
I need to get an internal USB card with a PCIe 1x connection. My PCI card is a PCI card first of all, plus it only has four ports. I am using all of those slots. I basically lost eight that were through my motherboard (six in back and two on top). I have an external powered USB hub, but it has only one slot open on that. It is stackable though... maybe I'll see if I can get another.