If you disable ' Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power ' from Device Manager should help, this will keep the USB ports inactive during sleep mode.
once you do this, take a marker and trace out the pattern of the switch on the panel. You can only configure these two options within the BIOS. you will want to take the switch and mock it up were you want it on the outer panel. hence the on/off power switch) you will want to have the switch close to the device, so I decided to mount my switch in the metal grated outer panel of my computer. the only problem is that the device was so old that it is not compatible with my operating systems boot configuration, causing me to either wait 5-7 mins for my pc to boot when it was plugged in, or I had to unplug the cables every time I rebooted my PC. If you are going to add this switch to an internal device that takes usb (This device uses a 9 pin usb cable, did not have any 9 pin slots left on my motherboard so I made a custom dual usb cable to plug them both in on the out side of my computer.
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