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    SDHC card not recognized by Aspire 5570

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lgmayka, Sep 22, 2007.

  1. lgmayka

    lgmayka Newbie

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    I bought an Aspire 5570 (Z series, I think) at Staples at the end of July. It runs Vista. The built-in SD card reader works fine on ordinary SD cards, but does not recognize SDHC cards.

    I thought that with all official Microsoft patches, Vista now supports SDHC, at least up to 8GB. Am I hobbled by the card reader hardware, or by the Texas Instrument Flashmedia Controller driver?
     
    lgmayka, Sep 22, 2007
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  2. Adam20

    Adam20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Its probably your card reader limitations, most card readers do not support SDHC because of the way these new cards work.
     
    Adam20, Sep 23, 2007
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    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    i would definately look for an updated driver for the card reader as i remember a while ago that some other machines had limitations that were simply down to drivers; an updated driver fixed this.
     
    Hairy_Lee, Sep 23, 2007
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  4. lgmayka

    lgmayka Newbie

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    After much searching I found version 2.0.0.8 on station-drivers.com and softpedia.com. (The official version with respect to Microsoft Update is 2.0.0.6.) With this 2.0.0.8, the reader now accepts 4GB SDHC cards. However, it still does not accept 8GB SDHC cards.

    Ah well, perhaps the next driver version...
     
    lgmayka, Sep 23, 2007
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