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    Aspire 5733 SD/MMC drivers?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by qwertymz, Sep 17, 2011.

  1. qwertymz

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    Bought a £300 5733 from Tesco and brought it abroad on conference - however, when I insert an SD card in the SD/MMC slot, nothing happens! No 'ding', no SD in Computer... nothing. Furthermore, Device Manager doesn't realise there's this device installed!

    I've tried looking on the Support website, but the only 'card reader' driver available for download seems to install a USB driver - which doesn't solve the problem.

    This is REALLY urgent guys... can anyone help?
     
    qwertymz, Sep 17, 2011
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    On my Acer, the card reader, in device manager, is listed under Universal Serial Bus controllers.

    When you put the card in, have you opened up windows explorer to see if it shows up in there as a removable drive or similar?
     
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    No- it's almost as if the drive doesn't exist.
     
    qwertymz, Sep 18, 2011
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    It allows me to install the drivers from the support website- but nothing appears in device manager and nothing happens when I insert my SD card.

    No ideas?
     
    qwertymz, Sep 19, 2011
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    Did you ever take your laptop apart? Far as I have seen from my 5739G the MMC/SD connection cable is extremly easy to forget to plug back in again.. If you have installed the driver, I raelly have no other idea what it can be. What driver did you instal from the ACER support side btw?
     
    tuηay, Sep 20, 2011
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    No - never taken this one apart (but I am wondering whether it has been plugged in!).

    I just went to the support site -> drivers -> aspire -> 5733 and installed the "CardReader" drivers; Realtek, I think.
     
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    That sounds perfectly correct actually.. Hmm, I wonder if there could be a hardware issue in picture here?
     
    tuηay, Sep 20, 2011
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    Not sure if this will work, but worth a shot, if you download the drivers directly from Realtek (link below will take you directly to download page), these are the latest ones V6.1.7600.30126, where as acers are V6.1.7600.30124, see if this helps. If they don't, have you tried a different card in the reader, just to rule out the card being faulty.

    Realtek
     
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