VPCZ1 Ricoh SD Card Reader update failing

Anyone else here getting notified of an update for their Ricoh SD card reader in Vaio Update, but having it fail to install every time. I'm caught in this loop, with update bugging me. I tried downloading and manually installing, and I get this logfile with a single error at the end. Any ideas? Thanks.

BTW, the update is called Ricoh(R) SD CPRM Memory Card Reader/Writer Driver Update and the downloadable file is here: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=6099&template_id=1&SMB=YES, called RIDFMC-00229135-1042.EXE and released on 8/26/2010

Code:

***  Installation Started 09/06/2010 14:37  ***
Title:
Source: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLB988.tmp | 09-06-2010 | 14:37:58 | 71680
File Overwrite: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLFBDC.tmp | 08-25-2010 | 11:27:28 | | 968 | c9788e13
File Copy: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLFBDD.EXE | 05-02-2003 | 16:13:12 | | 151552 | e3b5362a
File Overwrite: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLFC6B.tmp | 01-14-2010 | 15:41:16 | | 7099 | 94903112
Made Dir: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLF25E4
File Copy: C:\Users\Jas\AppData\Local\Temp\GLF25E4\EP0000229135.exe | 08-25-2010 | 10:46:48 | 2.0.0.4190 | 465832 | 90bb25e5
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Shared Info\AppDB\EP0000229135
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Shared Info\AppDB\EP0000229135
RegDB Val: EP0000229135
RegDB Name: appid
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: EP0000229135
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Shared Info\AppDB\EP0000229135
RegDB Val: Ricoh Memory Card Reader Writer Driver SD CPRM Update
RegDB Name: appname
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Ricoh Memory Card Reader Writer Driver SD CPRM Update
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Shared Info\AppDB\EP0000229135
RegDB Val: 1.0
RegDB Name: version
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 1.0
RegDB Key:
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: 09/06/10
RegDB Name: InstalledDate
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 09/06/10
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: 1.0
RegDB Name: DriverVersion
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 1.0
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: Ricoh Memory Card Reader Writer Driver SD CPRM Update
RegDB Name: DeviceDesc
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Ricoh Memory Card Reader Writer Driver SD CPRM Update
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: 8/25/2010
RegDB Name: DriverDate
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 8/25/2010
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: 8/25/2010
RegDB Name: ITDReleasedDate
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 8/25/2010
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: Jas
RegDB Name: InstalledBy
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Jas
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: Fail
RegDB Name: Status
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Pass
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: Sustaining
RegDB Name: InstalledType
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Sustaining
RegDB Key:
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val:
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Key: SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\Vaio Updates\Drivers\RIDFMC-00229135-1042
RegDB Val: Pass
RegDB Name: Status
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Fail

 

I downloaded the driver and it installs fine (I don't use Vaio Update). The logfile you showed seems to refer to Vaio Update's registry values, did you try uninstalling Vaio Update, installing the card reader driver, then reinstalling Vaio Update?

 

That log looks like it's passing and the old value was fail? Are you getting another error or are you assuming it's failed due to the log?

 

Update keeps showing the update and saying the installation failed. Maybe I'll try uninstalling Vaio update, installing the driver, then reinstalling the update, as TofuTurkey suggests.

 

Yeah, I don't know if the installation's actually failed. I wonder if that old value is from running Vaio Update first, and then trying manually. I might have to entirely uninstall and reinstall the card reader, as well as Vaio Update, and then reinstall first the reader and then Update, because doing what TofuTurkey suggested didn't work. VU still keeps telling me to install it and saying it failed.

 

Hmm, maybe running Vaio Care will help? It has a registry cleaner, perhaps it will clean out the errors. It's a wild shot, although every time it runs, it seems to find tons of problems with my registry to fix .

 

I went through uninstalling both Vaio update and my SD controller, wholesale, then reinstalling the controller, driver, and update for the SD, and then Vaio Update, and get the same results. But then I looked more closely at the download page for this SD update, and see it's not marked as required for Win 7 Ultimate (what I'm running). Since I guess that's not a supported OS for this laptop (which begs the question, why is it listed in the update matrix on Sony's download site), I guess VU can't tell what I do and don't need. This is just a theory, because I really don't understand what's happening when I read the log file. There's just that one failure message at the end of the file. I'll give TofuTurkey's recommendation a try, just to see what happens.

 

I get the same problem after a clean install. The program when run manually appears to install fine, but it's a little annoying that VAIO update continues to show it.

I'm on Windows 7 x64 Pro.