M1330 SD card problem with NIS2008

Anyone is running Norton Internet Security 2008 on their M1330 machine? With NIS2008 installed, my SD memory card reader is not functioning. Everytime I inserted a SD or Memory stick, Vista will complain new hardware found and could read my cards. With NIS2008 uninstalled, the card reader is working fine. I have tried many times reinstalling the Ricoh memory card reader but to no avail. Please help...

 

I had problem with my SD reader in my Vostro 1400 like your case. As you said, just re-installing the downloaded Ricoh driver did not help. I am not sure if this is related to NIS but my other hardware problem ran away after a NIS2007 autoupdate while at the same day I found the SD reader stop working. Anyway, I solved the SD reader problem by updating the driver manually. Just point it back to Windows/system32 folder for the driver and it may take up to 3 round of driver updates (SD host, generic volume, etc) to get the SD reader working again. I also need to go through the same procedure for one of my thumb drive and a different SD card. Now I got all my SD cards and thumb drives working.

 

Although not on a Dell computer, I have been having the same problem since I bought my computer (an Acer TravelMate with a built-in SD reader) and in my case it seems as if I have accidentally solved the problem:

For some reason, my machine could read neither 2GB SD cards, nor 2GB USB sticks -- while happily accepting both types of memory if they were 1GB...
Inserting the SD card, I could sometimes get Windows (Vista, by the way) to import one or two photos before telling me the card was missing (or something to that effect).

Now, having had TONS of otgher problems with my computer (ten-minute waits when resuming from hibernation, Internet Explorer crashing five to ten times per day) I removed Norton Internet Security (not an easy feat in itself as a special removal tool must be downloaded from Symantec) and installed Kaspersky instead (not a recommendation, just wanted to have something there...)

Anyway, today I decided to try and import some photos, and lo and behold, suddenly the entire SD card was imported without the slightest problem!

I definitely blame Norton Internet Security for this, and if you have trobles like that, try removing Norton altogether and see what happens...!

Thanks,

SG.

 

It seems the problem is it will not automatically install the SD drivers. Once you have installed the drivers for a particular SD or USB drive, it will work the next time you plug it in. I've gone through installing the 3-4 drivers per devices for all my thumb drives, MP3 players, SD cards,..etc each one individually and now I have all my flash media working. The only problem is that it takes 5min or so to install all the 3-4 drivers for each new flash media device.

 

I have NIS2008 and installed the new drivers several times without any luck!

Any other possible solutions?

Thanks!

 

I had a similar problem with AVG anti-virus (both 7.5 and 8). When removing an SD card, the driver would remain in memory, so any subsequent SD cards wouldn't be recognized unless I rebooted the machine. I ended up switching to Avast.

 

I found a work around:

Disabling the NIS2008 firewall and turning on the windows firewall works, at least on my 1330.