SD etc cards not being read

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SmilerUK

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Newish desktop, never really needed to fiddle with memory cards until now ...

I've got one of those internal multiformat card readers in my desktop connected via the internal USB. If I put a card in. e.g. an SD card, Windows does nothing. If I click on the drive letters for the cards, I get the usual "insert disk" type of message.

Here's what I've gathered so far:
  • When I put a card in, a little light lights up to tell me a card is inserted. Windows does nothing. So the reader detects a card is present.
  • If I reboot with a card inserted, the system hangs since the BIOS is configured to boot from the disks last, so the BIOS is seeing the drive reader.
  • If I unplug the reader and plug it in on a different USB socket, exactly the same behaviour.
  • If I uninstall devices like a man possessed via Device Managers (and having set the system variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to 1 to unhide things), reboot a few times, I get exactly the same behaviour.
I was thinking that there may be a hardware fault in the reader unit itself; it will detect a card, and Windows detects the card reader (controller chip), but the card reader won't tell Windows that a card is inserted. So, to test that, I bought another internal multicard and swapped them over (via a few reboots) and got exactly the same behaviour.

What am I missing? Is there a reg setting screwed up somewhere?

Any suggestions? This is my first Vista problem in the 3 months I've been using Vista so I'm still on the learning curve.




The card reader lights up to imply
 

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SmilerUK said:
Newish desktop, never really needed to fiddle with memory cards until now ...

I've got one of those internal multiformat card readers in my desktop connected via the internal USB. If I put a card in. e.g. an SD card, Windows does nothing. If I click on the drive letters for the cards, I get the usual "insert disk" type of message.


Here's what I've gathered so far:
  • When I put a card in, a little light lights up to tell me a card is inserted. Windows does nothing. So the reader detects a card is present.
  • If I reboot with a card inserted, the system hangs since the BIOS is configured to boot from the disks last, so the BIOS is seeing the drive reader.
  • If I unplug the reader and plug it in on a different USB socket, exactly the same behaviour.
  • If I uninstall devices like a man possessed via Device Managers (and having set the system variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to 1 to unhide things), reboot a few times, I get exactly the same behaviour.
I was thinking that there may be a hardware fault in the reader unit itself; it will detect a card, and Windows detects the card reader (controller chip), but the card reader won't tell Windows that a card is inserted. So, to test that, I bought another internal multicard and swapped them over (via a few reboots) and got exactly the same behaviour.

What am I missing? Is there a reg setting screwed up somewhere?

Any suggestions? This is my first Vista problem in the 3 months I've been using Vista so I'm still on the learning curve.




The card reader lights up to imply
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Hi
Here is longshot.....Go into control panel and find the "Automatic Execution" option..on mine (french version) it's "Execution Automatique"

Open this option and examine the list.
It could be that one of them related to images is set to "Do Nothing"
For images and cameras you need the option "Import with Windows" or "Always ask"

If I insert a card into mine (which came installed with the PC) a red light comes on and a window opens to ask what I want to do with the contents.

What happens if you plug in a camera containing a card to your usb socket?

As its a USB piece of kit does it need a driver?

Best of luck

Penphill
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    PACKARD BELL
    CPU
    INTEL CORE 2 Duo E4500
    Memory
    500 Go
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
    Monitor(s) Displays
    PACKARD BELL
    Hard Drives
    SATA 500 Go
Thanks for the suggestion. I took a look, but I couldn't spot anything for a generic memory card. Perhaps Auto Exec decided what to do based on the rules once the file tye has been identified.

I don't use cards just for images. They're just as likely to have notes and Powerpoint on as anything else.

If I plug a USB device into the USB port on the reader, the new thing behaves as it should so perhaps the port is simply a data pass through.

The card reader doesn't have specific drivers. It uses the ones that come on the Windows disk and are generic. I checked the MS site, and the drivers are the most up to date.
 

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