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Once a year I take some time to open up my PC and give it a nice cleaning out. I am shocked at how much dust collects just after one year. I built the system and spent some money on it so I want to do my best to look after the upkeep. My computer is tucked off to the side of my desk on a shelf built for it. Taking it out is a chore and I have to make sure each USB cable goes back exactly where it was removed. If not when I start my virtual com port program I get an error message that certain com ports are not working. 

I have been doing some reading on RFI these past few months and along with that comes the subject of grounding. One topic that came up over and over again was the front USB ports that some PCs have. Mine has such ports and it has been mentioned that most of the time these ports are not grounded to the chassis of the PC. They in most cases are grounded to the motherboard via the control cable that makes its way out to the USB  front board. 

Sure enough, my PC was one that did not have a chassis ground for the front USB ports. It was easy to do and was a jumper wire from the USB board to the PC chassis. At the time I had no green wire and had to use red but I will know what it is for. While I had the PC  open I did check the onboard USB ports and I have 11 of them and they are chassis grounded.