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SD card & built in card reader problem
I have a Aspire 5100-3583 with a built in card reader with Vista Home
Premium SP1. I have a Lexar 1GB SD card and a Kodak 128MB SD card which I'm having problems. I can't get Vista to read the SD card. it shows up as a SD Card in "Computer" but won't read. If I try to open it, it says to "Please insert disk into SD drive" when I try to format the card in Vista, in the format window where it says "capacity", it says "unknown capacity". I have checked the acer site and I have what appears to be the updated driver "ENE Card Reader Driver 3.00.00" and the windows KB936825 update was already installed. |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
An obvious question: Are you sure it is the reader and not the cards? Do
other readers see them correctly? Does the reader recognize other memory cards? HH "litefrozen" wrote in message m... I have a Aspire 5100-3583 with a built in card reader with Vista Home Premium SP1. I have a Lexar 1GB SD card and a Kodak 128MB SD card which I'm having problems. I can't get Vista to read the SD card. it shows up as a SD Card in "Computer" but won't read. If I try to open it, it says to "Please insert disk into SD drive" when I try to format the card in Vista, in the format window where it says "capacity", it says "unknown capacity". I have checked the acer site and I have what appears to be the updated driver "ENE Card Reader Driver 3.00.00" and the windows KB936825 update was already installed. |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
as HH said, confirm it isnt the card.
"litefrozen" wrote in message m... I have a Aspire 5100-3583 with a built in card reader with Vista Home Premium SP1. I have a Lexar 1GB SD card and a Kodak 128MB SD card which I'm having problems. I can't get Vista to read the SD card. it shows up as a SD Card in "Computer" but won't read. If I try to open it, it says to "Please insert disk into SD drive" when I try to format the card in Vista, in the format window where it says "capacity", it says "unknown capacity". I have checked the acer site and I have what appears to be the updated driver "ENE Card Reader Driver 3.00.00" and the windows KB936825 update was already installed. |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
doS wrote:
as HH said, confirm it isnt the card. I confirmed it wasn't the cards the first thing. I believe I may have found the problem. It's looking like the contacts in the card reader itself. They are not making proper contact with the contacts on the cards. I found if I insert then remove then reinsert the card a couple of times it would mount properly. So either the contacts are not tight enough against the card contacts or the contacts in the card reader need cleaning. I had not noticed this before because I had never used the built in card reader before. |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
I have exactly the same intermittent read problem with the Aspire 5100
in that the 1GB SD cards sometimes read first time but often not until taken out and put back in again. Sony memory sticks cause a complete system reboot. However the card reader will not read any SDHC cards (which most of the bigger cards are ie. 4 - 8GB ones). Is there any driver update for this device? I cannot see one on the Acer site that will work with my laptop. Rgds., Roy |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
As far as I know, none of the built in readers can read a HC card, and
that's why most card mfgs supply a tiny converter to USB. They are very cheap, and you can get one with a new card, and use it on all your HC cards. There is no driver update possible, I am told, because the pin out is different. I read my 4 GB SDHC card with no problems using the adapter to USB, and the SD cards read fine plugged directly into my card reader built "litefrozen" wrote in message m... I have a Aspire 5100-3583 with a built in card reader with Vista Home Premium SP1. I have a Lexar 1GB SD card and a Kodak 128MB SD card which I'm having problems. I can't get Vista to read the SD card. it shows up as a SD Card in "Computer" but won't read. If I try to open it, it says to "Please insert disk into SD drive" when I try to format the card in Vista, in the format window where it says "capacity", it says "unknown capacity". I have checked the acer site and I have what appears to be the updated driver "ENE Card Reader Driver 3.00.00" and the windows KB936825 update was already installed. |
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SD card & built in card reader problem
you are dead wrong
"Wandering" wrote in message ... As far as I know, none of the built in readers can read a HC card, and that's why most card mfgs supply a tiny converter to USB. They are very cheap, and you can get one with a new card, and use it on all your HC cards. There is no driver update possible, I am told, because the pin out is different. I read my 4 GB SDHC card with no problems using the adapter to USB, and the SD cards read fine plugged directly into my card reader built "litefrozen" wrote in message m... I have a Aspire 5100-3583 with a built in card reader with Vista Home Premium SP1. I have a Lexar 1GB SD card and a Kodak 128MB SD card which I'm having problems. I can't get Vista to read the SD card. it shows up as a SD Card in "Computer" but won't read. If I try to open it, it says to "Please insert disk into SD drive" when I try to format the card in Vista, in the format window where it says "capacity", it says "unknown capacity". I have checked the acer site and I have what appears to be the updated driver "ENE Card Reader Driver 3.00.00" and the windows KB936825 update was already installed. |
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