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    [F3Ka]SD Reader driver for XP?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sergi, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. sergi

    sergi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I'm new here. :)

    I installed XP in my F3KA, and it is working fine, but still have problems with my SD Reader. Does anyone have problems with it?.

    Can anyone help me what's the right version of the driver for XP?, or a link to download the right working driver.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    sergi, Mar 1, 2008
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    Thank you Kvehh. I still have problem with the SD reader. I installed it and I have 4 Ricoh drivers under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers in the Device Manager. Most of them have different driver numbers versions. Should the version number match all of them?

    What's the version number of the driver that works? When I connect the SD Card, i just heard two sounds instead of one. Like its connecting and disconnecting automatically.

    The drivers in their properties say that it is working fine.. but I can't see any drive in my Computer folder. Please help.
     
    sergi, Mar 3, 2008
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    It worked fine in Vista, but not in XP Pro.

    How can i know what SD Reader hardware is in my laptop? maybe from there i can find the right driver version to fix this problem. Help please.
     
    sergi, Mar 5, 2008
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    In a nutshell, it shouldn't matter. You can download all the XP drivers and try them. The system will only install it automatically if it finds a device that has a proper matching device ID. (you can see the device ID under the "Device Instance ID" dropdown under the device's Details tab in the Device Manager, but it won't really tell you what the model is).
     
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    Does this apply though to the executable installers (setup.exe driver installers). Perhaps those will just add garbage to the system if the IDs don't match. ASUS apps and installers aren't among the best known to humankind, so I wouldn't bet they check the proper hardware version before they start copying files.

    If you install drivers manually, though (Have Disk), then there's no danger of this happenning.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 7, 2008
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    I did both ways. By installing with the setup.exe and installing manually. Nothing works.

    But, its strange that in the device manager the 4 drivers are listed as working without problems. Any idea to fix this?
     
    sergi, Mar 8, 2008
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    I think I have the same issue as you do. I'm also using XP, and the devices are also listed as working -- but I can't read SDHC.

    I will investigate deeper the issue this weekend (I might have done something wrong during the install), but it appears that those drivers given in the link above, don't work properly with XP.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 8, 2008
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    Thank you E.B.E, I'm trying to figure what's the problem also, but I'm almost certain that's its a driver troubleshoot not a hardware problem. Judging for the two sounds (connect and disconnect at the same time).
     
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    I agree, it sounds like drivers.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 10, 2008
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    Do you think maybe a BIOS update could solve the problem?
     
    sergi, Mar 10, 2008
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    It doesn't hurt to try... but I wouldn't put too many hopes in it.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 11, 2008
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    I'm having the same issue on my HP laptop 6910p. Tech has replaced the motherboard and SD slot, and then it worked for only 1 time. Now I get the same issue as before, the sound as connected and then immediately a sound as disconnected. Has anybody resolved this issue?
     
    EazySteve, Apr 15, 2008
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    I didn't resolve this issue (I never had it actually) -- and the user that had it didn't confirm that s/he resolved it... but maybe it will help you to know that my SD card reader now reads SDHC cards. It started working sometime after I installed the driver, don't know exactly when. I still have a question mark over the MMC driver, but I don't care since I don't have MMC cards.

    What can be helpful to you: the antifart.com link given in the first page of the thread works for XP, as well. Maybe you can try those drivers.
     
    E.B.E., Apr 15, 2008
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    Well, it actually updated the sd driver that was like year 2002 from the antifart.com link you gave me, but I'm still having the same issue as the thread starter. My SD cards make a connected sound and a disconnected sound within a second of each other and no drive listed under My Computer. I did notice while device manager was open every time I put an SD card in a new drive would show up under disk drives, but disappears after a second.

    This is really weird and the HP techs have no idea what the issue is. I don't believe it's a hardware defect since the motherboard and SD slot has been replaced.
     
    EazySteve, Apr 16, 2008
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    Hi,

    well i just used a different card and it worked. Like an poster said before, i believe that the chipset is picky, i suggest you to use decent sd cards. (not cheap ones)
     
    sergi, May 8, 2008
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    Myself, I never had any issues with SanDisk. I think APACER or something like that also works (don't remember the name exactly).
     
    E.B.E., May 9, 2008
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