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Card reader not working
I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem.
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Card reader not working
From: "lennox"
I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. What kind of "Card Reader" ? Memory card ? Smart card ? You wrote "When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens" Do you mean when you insert a Memory Card or a Smart Card into the slot nothings happens and what do you expect to happen ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up.. |
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Card reader not working
From: "lennox"
lennox;3552654 Wrote: I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. Dave: Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up..-- lennox OK. Some notebooks with embedded Memory Card Readers will automatically have a drive letter, such as "E:" created whether a card is inserted into the reader or not. Other notebook card readers will create a drive letter ONLY when I formatted card is inserted into the reader. Most Memory Cards are from digital cameras (although they can come from any device) and are formatted with FAT partitions. Assuming its a camera you should be able to thumb through the pictures on the camera. In the two cases of the notebook, either you already have a drive letter representing the the card reader or the moment you insert the card a drive letter is created and through that drive letter you can browse and see the photos represented on the card. By Right-Clicking on "My Computer" you can then choose "Manage" Under that screen you'll see "Device Manager" and "Disk Management" Device Manager can be used to determine if the card Reader is operting correctly (with the card inserted or not) and using Disk Management you can see if a drive is seen by the OS. How to proceed would be based upon what you see. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Card reader not working
lennox wrote:
lennox;3552654 Wrote: I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. Dave: Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up.. To add to David's excellent reply, see if Auto Play in enabled for that drive. Personally, I don't use auto play since I don't much care for viruses. |
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Card reader not working
From: "Paul in Houston TX"
lennox wrote: lennox;3552654 Wrote: I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. Dave: Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up.. To add to David's excellent reply, see if Auto Play in enabled for that drive. Personally, I don't use auto play since I don't much care for viruses. Yes, AutoPlay/AutoRun with Read/Write media is a way to get infected with AutoRun Worms which are a type of computer virus. Ask the US Army about the Win32/Agent.BTZ fiasco ;-) -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Card reader not working
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes: lennox wrote: lennox;3552654 Wrote: I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. Dave: Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up.. To add to David's excellent reply, see if Auto Play in enabled for that drive. Personally, I don't use auto play since I don't much care for viruses. Or more simply (Dave's is an excellent reply though) if you open explorer (Win key plus E), what drive letters do you see? With a card in, or not? You should see drive C:, and probably - maybe only when there is a card in - another letter. (If you see another letter - and can look at its contents without a card in - then your hard disc is partitioned into two; if that is the case, you should see a _third_ letter for the card, at least when it is in.) Is the memory card OK - can you see pictures on it in the camera? (Have you tried another memory card? Or tried the card in something else - a digital photo frame, your TV if it has a card slot, and so on?) Does the card reader show up in device manager (possibly under USB devices)? If not, are there any "unknown devices" there? If you can see it in explorer, just it doesn't start showing pictures automatically, all is well - you just haven't got autoplay enabled for that "drive". As others have said, autoplay is a potential way in for malware so that's probably a good thing. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stoopid gesture be done on somebody's part." "We're just the guys to do it." Eric "Otter" Stratton (Tim Matheson) and John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi) - N. L's Animal House (1978) |
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From: "lennox"
Dave & Paul: You both came up with good information,I tried all that,with no luck. It works fine when attached to rear port with camera..Thefront slot is not reading...-- lennox Bypass it then. There are many inexpensive multi-card Memory Card Readers such as the following 12 in 1 by SanDisk http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-ImageM.../dp/B00064V6RG or this one by IOGear http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820283010 -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Card reader not working
On 4/22/13 1:52 PM, lennox wrote:
I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. A real "out in left field" thought... I once had a Dell I was working on, reinstalling the OS and all software. The camera software installed and connected to the camera fine here. When I gave it back to the owner, he reported the camera software did not work. It didn't see the camera. USB in this case. Went over and looked at it, and it didn't work. Eventually, I plugged it into the port I used to install the software, worked fine. For the port where the camera would not work, every other USB device worked. Both printers, in this case. I had no clue what the problem was. The owner got out a magnifying glass and a penlight, and looked at the wires in the USB port that was the problem. He got in there with some kind of tool, and pried each wire up just a bit inside the computer port for better contact, and the problem was solved. If you can, you might just check that out, at least look inside and see if something may be displaced. Nothing to lose, I think. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.3 Firefox 20.0 Thunderbird 17.0.5 LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 |
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"Ken Springer" wrote in message ... On 4/22/13 1:52 PM, lennox wrote: I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem. A real "out in left field" thought... I once had a Dell I was working on, reinstalling the OS and all software. The camera software installed and connected to the camera fine here. When I gave it back to the owner, he reported the camera software did not work. It didn't see the camera. USB in this case. Went over and looked at it, and it didn't work. Eventually, I plugged it into the port I used to install the software, worked fine. For the port where the camera would not work, every other USB device worked. Both printers, in this case. I had no clue what the problem was. The owner got out a magnifying glass and a penlight, and looked at the wires in the USB port that was the problem. He got in there with some kind of tool, and pried each wire up just a bit inside the computer port for better contact, and the problem was solved. If you can, you might just check that out, at least look inside and see if something may be displaced. Nothing to lose, I think. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.3 Firefox 20.0 Thunderbird 17.0.5 LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 I was going to start spouting about USB port no. eunumeration, until I got to the part where you mentioned hardware "poor interference" (contact) problems ! It is always fascinating to me that, (esp. if nasty Autoplay is not enabled), many computer users are completely unaware that "Windows Explorer" even exists, don't know what it's for, and that it has always shipped with Windows, ....also many are completely unaware that Windows assigns the next available drive letter to a detected mass storage device e.g. a camera card that's plugged in !!! Makes one wonder how on earth they manipulate files, and ever find them again !!! I think they rely entirely on molly-coddling file handling facilities within a software application without really understanding where and how files are stored. I recently had to introduce a chap to Windows Explorer, ( I suppose I could have led him to "My Computer"....), to keep an eye out that his LG DVD rewriter drive, (that seemed unhappy operating in AHCI mode), persists each session, now that it's set to IDE mode. (Asus board SATA ports 1-4 ,(2 x hd's connected to 1 and 2), in AHCI mode as required by Windows Ultimate , ports 3 and 4 now empty, ports 5-6 set to IDE mode, and sata lead for dvd rewriter and camera card reader bay moved from port (AHCI) ports 3 and 4, to ports 5 and 6 (now in IDE mode), respectively, ...and his DVD rewriter drive appears at every boot, whereas before it would be internittently missing in Windows Explorer, but, seeing as there's been a new IDE LG DVD rewriter on a shelf here for two years !, if he reports that it's not appearing every single boot, (as it was for me), I think I'll swap it out :-) So there you are, ! ....time for bed ! regards, Richard |
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