Replacing USB port on motherboard

The pins of these stacked USB ports are mostly standard. The mounting holes can be different. Either carefully measure your board or just buy a few random stacked USB ports that look about right and I’m sure one will fit or can be bend a little bit to fit.

Unsoldering these is not a huge problem with some experience, but might be annoying and time consuming. If you have problems, it can be easier to carefully cut off the upper part of USB port so you can remove the pins one by one. Be very careful with the small resistors and caps in the area, they’re a pain to fix if you accidentally unsolder them. Especially the one directly below the bottom right corner of the red rectangle looks very dangerous. (It’s probably not essential, though)

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