Vista - Card reader on toshiba laptop

I have a toshiba laptop with a card reader but it fails to read the sony pro
duo card (1Gb). When I look at the driver on device manager it has the yellow
triangle saying it isnt working properly. When I try to update the driver it
says it found a driver but couldnt install it properly. Can anyone help.
Thanks

Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?



"thecraftypenguin" <thecraftypenguin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I have a toshiba laptop with a card reader but it fails to read the sony
>pro
> duo card (1Gb). When I look at the driver on device manager it has the
> yellow
> triangle saying it isnt working properly. When I try to update the driver
> it
> says it found a driver but couldnt install it properly. Can anyone help.
> Thanks

"Dominic Payer" wrote:

> Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
> scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?

Yes this was the first thing I tried it searches says it has found it but
cannot install it, the card reader works fine with my other SD card but not
with the Sony one

Check with Toshiba. There may be a known incompatibility between the Sony
card and the reader or it might be an early symptom of reader failure. I
assume you have tested the Sony card and can read it in other devices.

If the reader works with another card it doesn't sound like a faulty reader.
There should be no card in the reader when installing it as a device.



"thecraftypenguin" <thecraftypenguin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>
>
> "Dominic Payer" wrote:
>
>> Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
>> scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?
>
> Yes this was the first thing I tried it searches says it has found it but
> cannot install it, the card reader works fine with my other SD card but
> not
> with the Sony one

"Dominic Payer" wrote:

> Check with Toshiba. There may be a known incompatibility between the Sony
> card and the reader or it might be an early symptom of reader failure. I
> assume you have tested the Sony card and can read it in other devices.
>
> If the reader works with another card it doesn't sound like a faulty reader.
> There should be no card in the reader when installing it as a device.
>
>
>
> "thecraftypenguin" <thecraftypenguin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:5EE5A5E4-EF87-487E-8238-55243CAC6A4C@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "Dominic Payer" wrote:
> >
> >> Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
> >> scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?
> >
> > Yes this was the first thing I tried it searches says it has found it but
> > cannot install it, the card reader works fine with my other SD card but
> > not
> > with the Sony one
>

Toshiba has new drivers and I think utilities for card reader, and
probably even a new BIOS... totally upgraded my Toshiba
lappie.

"clay282" <clay282@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2DDD4CBB-F945-47EF-9BB2-60F28CC8A7CB@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Dominic Payer" wrote:
>
>> Check with Toshiba. There may be a known incompatibility between the Sony
>> card and the reader or it might be an early symptom of reader failure. I
>> assume you have tested the Sony card and can read it in other devices.
>>
>> If the reader works with another card it doesn't sound like a faulty reader.
>> There should be no card in the reader when installing it as a device.
>>
>>
>>
>> "thecraftypenguin" <thecraftypenguin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:5EE5A5E4-EF87-487E-8238-55243CAC6A4C@microsoft.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > "Dominic Payer" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
>> >> scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?
>> >
>> > Yes this was the first thing I tried it searches says it has found it but
>> > cannot install it, the card reader works fine with my other SD card but
>> > not
>> > with the Sony one
>>

Sorry for the double post.. im new to Windows Help.

I am having a similar issue with the sony memory stick pro duo. Ill start
from the beginning so maybe someone will find something im missing. I have a
Gateway MX 8710 that i bought right before Vista came out. It has a built in
memory card reader and when i purchased it i got the free Vista Home Premium
upgrade. The card reader worked greatwith the pro duo on XP and worked great
when i first installed Vista. I used it repeatedly and everything was fine
UNTIL i bought a Sandisk Ultra II SD card to use as readyboost. I stuck the
card in and it gave me the option to use the card as readyboost so i did,
great... A couple weeks later i went to use the built in card reader to
change some music up on my phone and took out the Sandisk and put in the Pro
Duo card and it showed flash memory but when i would click on it to open it
up, it kept giving me a message telling me to "please insert a disk into
Removable Disc. I thought maybe it was an issue with the notebook since it
was having another issue with the processor. When i went to send in the
notebook for repair (which by the way took a total of 72 hours from my door
back to my door YAY GATEWAY) and they told me to return it to the original XP
setup, so i did. When i got it back i installed Vista fresh and the memory
card reader worked with the pro duo card and it was fine THEN after i was
done i put the Sandisk back in to use it as readyboost again and that worked.
Later i went to use the prop duo stick again and got the same error message.
Now i cant use the Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo because the i get the insert
disk into Removable Disk message again. I know its not the card reader
because The Sandisk works fine and 1 minute before i put it in, the Sony
worked. Any suggestions? I cant find anything else online about it.

"clay282" wrote:

>
>
> "Dominic Payer" wrote:
>
> > Check with Toshiba. There may be a known incompatibility between the Sony
> > card and the reader or it might be an early symptom of reader failure. I
> > assume you have tested the Sony card and can read it in other devices.
> >
> > If the reader works with another card it doesn't sound like a faulty reader.
> > There should be no card in the reader when installing it as a device.
> >
> >
> >
> > "thecraftypenguin" <thecraftypenguin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:5EE5A5E4-EF87-487E-8238-55243CAC6A4C@microsoft.com...
> > >
> > >
> > > "Dominic Payer" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Have you tried uninstalling the card reader in Device Manager and then
> > >> scanning for new hardware so it is re-installed?
> > >
> > > Yes this was the first thing I tried it searches says it has found it but
> > > cannot install it, the card reader works fine with my other SD card but
> > > not
> > > with the Sony one
> >