My Dell BIOS has separate enable settings for the front and the rear USB
ports, yours might also.

A long shot: I had a machine that the front set of USBs did not work, the
connector had been installed backward onto the mother board, took me a long
time to find that as I was not expecting such an error.

Michael

"Corymca" <Corymca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 computers, both with MSI Motherboards. On both of them I cannot
>get
> the front USB ports to work in Vista....I have talked to MSI and they are
> saying they should just work...But I have tried connecting the case and a
> internal card reader but it doens;t work. Any ideas[/color]