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    pcmcia sluggish

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by avicenne13, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. avicenne13

    avicenne13 Notebook Geek

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    on my vaio sz-4xx i have a specific problem

    i use
    -a sandisk 6 in one card reader
    -another sandisk CF reader
    -globetrotter connect gprs/edge/wifi card

    whenever i plug these card in, the computer loses significant amount of resources and becomes sluggish

    any ideas?
     
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  2. tumnasgt

    tumnasgt Notebook Evangelist

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    How long have you had this problem?
     
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    avicenne13 Notebook Geek

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    since I had my vaio, which is more or less around a year
     
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    Mujja Notebook Evangelist

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    I bought a Sandisk CF card reader last year to use in a SZ2, both sold now.
    Both my 4GB CF cards, one a Sandisk Ultra II and the other a no brand card, could only be read at 2MB/s.

    In a Sandisk 8in1 USB card reader I could read the Ultra II at it's full speed of around 10MB/s.

    A bit of Googling revealed the problem was with the Sandisk PCMCIA reader with users had swapped for a Lexar reader which solved the slow read issues.

    If you monitor Task Manager you'll see CPU usage goes to 100% when the CF is in use.

    Try another card reader.

    Use HDTach to run some test on the card in different readers.
     
    Mujja, Apr 18, 2008
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