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    m1330 SDHC?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Topspin14m, Sep 26, 2007.

  1. Topspin14m

    Topspin14m Notebook Consultant

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    Will the memory card reader built into the m1330 read SDHC cards?
     
    Topspin14m, Sep 26, 2007
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    Yes ......
     
    Chuckles, Sep 26, 2007
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    Topspin14m Notebook Consultant

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    Haha sorry if that was a super obvious question. I just don't want to drop 80 bucks on something that wont work.
     
    Topspin14m, Sep 26, 2007
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    Chuckles Notebook Consultant

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    No, it's not obvious, it's a reasonable question. I had to look hard (before I bought it) to find a Dell web page where it says the m1330 will take SDHC cards. I guess few people have SDHC cards today so almost no one cares, not even Dell, but anyway, it does work.
     
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    I did not see the spec either, before I bought it, but, in my experience, it does work with SDHC.
     
    Samuel613, Sep 26, 2007
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    I'm using mine with the sandisk extreme 4gb card as well (the ducati one). guess that's a sdhc card.
    http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1350)-SanDisk_Extreme_Ducati_Edition_SD_Plus.aspx

    I was lucky as the storekeeper let me try out his card on my lappy before I bought it.


    in FAT32 format, the vista readyboost test shows random read speed at 7250KB/s and sequential write at 6321KB/s.

    never got to try other file formats, but that's decent enough for me.
     
    boggysv, Sep 26, 2007
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    Old topic, I know. But my m1330 wouldnt take my class 6 8gb sdhc card.

    I found the drivers, however. It looks like the official dell drivers are actually missing the SD drivers (has mmc, xd and ms... but no sd).

    Here is the link to the drivers:

    Actually, here is the guide from someone's blog/antifart:

    http://www.antifart.com/2007/12/31/dell-vostro-1000-sdhc-driver.html

    Here are the actual drivers (run the exe and it decompresses itself into a folder with the drivers):

    http://www.fmworld.net/download/E1007029/E1007029.exe


    Anyone who doesn't believe or doesn't trust... feel free to do an antivirus scan on the exe. Its clean.

    Once you have the drivers... open up DEVICE MANAGER and right-click the SD HOST in the manager. You should see the driver installed is from Microsoft circa 2002. Update the driver and say NO to looking online, click HAVE DISK and tell it to use the drivers in the SD folder of the extracted drivers.

    Cheers,
     
    Kevbodian, May 6, 2008
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