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    W860cu HDD temps and Cardreader problems

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kevindd992002, Nov 26, 2010.

  1. kevindd992002

    kevindd992002 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Can anyone please help me? I really can't see the temp of my HDD under HWMonitor Pro. I already tried reformatting and all but why can't I see it listed under the devices in HWMonitor Pro? I was seeing it before, I don't know what happened now. Anyone has an idea?

    Also, I just noticed that around 5 minutes AFTER booting into Windows, the JMicron cardreader device gets disabled under device manager, the device won't be listed there at all and I hear the device disconnection sound of Win7. At this state, when I insert an SD Card, the laptop won't be able to read the card UNTIL I reboot while the car is inserted. When it gets read, I try to disconnect and connect it and it won't be able to read it again. The only thing I can do to make the card be read is to restart the laptop while the card is inserted. I'm using the latest drivers from station-drivers.com. What seems to be the prob here?
     
    kevindd992002, Nov 26, 2010
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  2. gearofwar

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    For HWMonitor , are you using some kind of overclocking software?
     
    gearofwar, Nov 26, 2010
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  3. kevindd992002

    kevindd992002 Notebook Virtuoso

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    No overcloking software or anyhthing. I'm using all latest drivers and this is from a fresh format.
     
    kevindd992002, Nov 27, 2010
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  4. othonda

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    I don't see either of my hard drives in HWmonitor either. I am running Intel driver 10.1046. I use HWinfo32 and it see's my spindle drive just fine.
    I wonder if an older RST driver would show your drive?

    My Jmicron controller has been working fine. I was using 1.0.4 but recently upgraded to 1.0.51.6, still have had no issue with it at all. Here is the link for the latest driver. Use JMB38x version 51.9 (after install show 51.6, not sure why that is)

    http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm

    Hope this helps!
     
    othonda, Nov 27, 2010
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  5. kevindd992002

    kevindd992002 Notebook Virtuoso

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    As I remember, there is no HDD temp for SSD drives, so you can't see it with your mechanical drive too?

    I'm using those drivers as well. Can you try this for me: turn on the laptop until the desktop appears, immediately open device manager and wait for 10 mins and see if the JMicron drivers there won't suddenly disappear?
     
    kevindd992002, Nov 28, 2010
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    Can any other softwares read the temps?
     
    The_Observer, Nov 29, 2010
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    Hwinfo32, Everest Ultimate (non-free), HHDTemp
     
    Aikimox, Nov 29, 2010
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    Interesting, the JMicron drivers do disappear like yours does. However I plug in a memory card and and it finds the card and is ready to go.
     
    othonda, Nov 29, 2010
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  10. kevindd992002

    kevindd992002 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah, I've tried plugging a Memory Stick when the JMicron drivers disappear from the device manager and it also works with no problems. I guess the SD card I've tried a few days ago is the problem.
     
    kevindd992002, Nov 29, 2010
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  11. othonda

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    I can confirm that a SD card was the type I was using for the test. You very well could have a bum SD card
     
    othonda, Nov 29, 2010
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  12. kevindd992002

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    Not at all because the SD card can be read if I restart the computer while it is plugged-in the slot.
     
    kevindd992002, Nov 29, 2010
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    Patrck_744, Nov 30, 2010
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  14. othonda

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    Not sure what's going on then, do you have access to a different SD drive to try?
     
    othonda, Nov 30, 2010
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