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    Built-in cardreader and microSD cards

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Niemitz, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. Niemitz

    Niemitz Notebook Consultant

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    Hi !
    I have a little problem. My laptop ( ASUS A6Jc) has a card reader ( I believe it is RICOH 841). I have 3 SanDisk SD cards: ULTRA II 2 GB SD card, 2GB micro SD card, and 4GB micro SDHC card. I also use SanDisk microSD adapter and Sandisk MicroMate SDHC Reader.
    With Windows Vista installed everything works fine. I can read and write any of those cards with laptop build-in card-reader and with MicroMate attached to USB port.
    I've recently downgraded to XP Pro SP2 and now I have a problem with microSD cards. They work fine with MicroMate Cardreader but built-in card-reader doesn’t read them ( "Please insert a disk into drive G:" error). Built in reader reads full-sized Ultra II 2GB SD card just fine , so I guess it shouldn’t be a driver problem. With Micromate I am able to access 2GB microSD and 4GB microSDHC cards, so I guess it is not SDHC problem either (btw I have WindowsXP-KB934428-v2-x86-ENU.exe hotfix installed). Every time I want to plug Micromate I have to unplug 2 USB devices (micromate is too wide and 1 USB port is not enough, I have to unplug another neighboring one). So I would prefer on using built –in card reader.

    So the question is – can this problem be fixed? Updated driver? Hotfix?

    Thank You!
     
    Niemitz, Dec 14, 2007
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  2. Nrbelex

    Nrbelex Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Yea, look for the most recent driver on the Asus website.

    ~ Brett
     
    Nrbelex, Dec 14, 2007
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  3. Niemitz

    Niemitz Notebook Consultant

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    Done that long time ago... no luck :-(

    BTW Asus has 2 drivers listed there

    1) RICOH 841 SD/MMC/MS card reader driver for WinXP Version V2.15 - posted on 2006/02/20
    CardReader_XP_060220.zip - (1,934,923 bytes)

    2) RICOH card reader driver for WinXP Version V2.15 - posted on 2006/07/06
    RICOH_XP_060706.zip - 1.84 MB (1,934,923 bytes)

    Other than dates posted and file names those two files appear to be the same. Anyways, I think I had installed the latest one of these two. And the problem wasn't resolved :-(

    Any more ideas? Please!

    Thank you!
     
    Niemitz, Dec 14, 2007
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Maybe it's an unfixed driver bug. Perhaps the manufacturer of the card reader has newer/better Vista drivers? (Ricoh to be precise)
     
    E.B.E., Dec 14, 2007
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  5. Niemitz

    Niemitz Notebook Consultant

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    I had installed XP SP3 RC hoping that it might solve the problem, but the problem is still there :-(
    Somebody, please, tell me how can I fix it. It really drives me crazy...
     
    Niemitz, Dec 18, 2007
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