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    Card reader won't read 4 and 16 GB cards

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by obsolete, Dec 21, 2008.

  1. obsolete

    obsolete Notebook Evangelist

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    I've got an ASUS G1 as noted in my sig. It has a ricoh sd/mmc disk device. It reads my 2GB SD card fine. It won't read my 4GB microSD with SD adapter. It won't read my 16GB SD card.

    I tried the Microsoft hotfix, but it says I'm already running the most up to date version of XP pro. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    I don't want to buy an external reader and my camera doesn't have a mini usb port.
     
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  2. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    Most likely it won't read SDHC card's at all.

    I had the same with my old HP printer.
     
    ScifiMike12, Dec 21, 2008
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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  4. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Well.. I had this problem with my older F3Sv.. The funny thing was, it read the cards just fine with Vista installed..
     
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  5. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Update firmware/driver of card reader may help...
     
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    obsolete Notebook Evangelist

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    I updated the drivers, but no luck. Will try out your fix K-Tron. Thanks for the replies.
     
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    No luck. That was the MS hotfix which I already tried. Looks like I'm stuck with the proprietary cable.
     
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