Card reader not working

[lennox]

I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing
happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows
up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem.




--
lennox

[David H. Lipman]

From: "lennox" <lennox....@pcbanter.net>

> I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into slot,nothing
> happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows
> up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem.
>

What kind of "Card Reader" ?
Memory card ?
Smart card ?

You wrote "When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens"
Do you mean when you insert a Memory Card or a Smart Card into the slot
nothings happens and what do you expect to happen ?



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[lennox]

Dave:
Its a memory card,when I insert it,I expect to see pictures come up..




--
lennox

[David H. Lipman]

From: "lennox" <lennox....@pcbanter.net>

OK.

Some notebooks with embedded Memory Card Readers will automatically have a
drive letter, such as "E:" created whether a card is inserted into the
reader or not. Other notebook card readers will create a drive letter ONLY
when I formatted card is inserted into the reader.

Most Memory Cards are from digital cameras (although they can come from any
device) and are formatted with FAT partitions. Assuming its a camera you
should be able to thumb through the pictures on the camera.

In the two cases of the notebook, either you already have a drive letter
representing the the card reader or the moment you insert the card a drive
letter is created and through that drive letter you can browse and see the
photos represented on the card.

By Right-Clicking on "My Computer" you can then choose "Manage"

Under that screen you'll see "Device Manager" and "Disk Management"

Device Manager can be used to determine if the card Reader is operting
correctly (with the card inserted or not) and using Disk Management you can
see if a drive is seen by the OS.

How to proceed would be based upon what you see.

[Paul in Houston TX]

To add to David's excellent reply, see if Auto Play in enabled
for that drive. Personally, I don't use auto play since I don't
much care for viruses.

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Paul in Houston TX" <Pa...@Houston.com>

Yes, AutoPlay/AutoRun with Read/Write media is a way to get infected with
AutoRun Worms which are a type of computer virus.

Ask the US Army about the Win32/Agent.BTZ fiasco ;-)

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <kl4lob$gfq$1...@dont-email.me>, Paul in Houston TX

Or more simply (Dave's is an excellent reply though) if you open
explorer (Win key plus E), what drive letters do you see? With a card
in, or not? You should see drive C:, and probably - maybe only when
there is a card in - another letter. (If you see another letter - and
can look at its contents without a card in - then your hard disc is
partitioned into two; if that is the case, you should see a _third_
letter for the card, at least when it is in.)

Is the memory card OK - can you see pictures on it in the camera? (Have
you tried another memory card? Or tried the card in something else - a
digital photo frame, your TV if it has a card slot, and so on?)

Does the card reader show up in device manager (possibly under USB
devices)? If not, are there any "unknown devices" there?

If you can see it in explorer, just it doesn't start showing pictures
automatically, all is well - you just haven't got autoplay enabled for
that "drive". As others have said, autoplay is a potential way in for
malware so that's probably a good thing.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stoopid gesture be done
on somebody's part." "We're just the guys to do it." Eric "Otter" Stratton (Tim
Matheson) and John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi) - N. L's Animal House
(1978)

[lennox]

David H. Lipman;3552668 Wrote:
> From: "lennox" lennox....@pcbanter.net
> -

> I have an Acer 5600 laptop..When I insert card reader into
> slot,nothing
> happens.I downloaded new card driver and chipset,still nothing shows
> up..I have not found anybody that could help me solve this problem.

> -

>
> What kind of "Card Reader" ?
> Memory card ?
> Smart card ?
>
> You wrote "When I insert card reader into slot,nothing happens"
> Do you mean when you insert a Memory Card or a Smart Card into the slot
>
> nothings happens and what do you expect to happen ?
>
>
>
> --
> Dave
> Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
> http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

Dave & Paul: You both came up with good information,I tried all that,
with no luck. It works fine when attached to rear port with camera..The
front slot is not reading...




--
lennox

[David H. Lipman]

From: "lennox" <lennox....@pcbanter.net>

>
> Dave & Paul: You both came up with good information,I tried all that,with
> no luck. It works
> fine when attached to rear port with camera..Thefront slot is not
> reading...-- lennox

Bypass it then. There are many inexpensive multi-card Memory Card Readers
such as the following 12 in 1 by SanDisk

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-ImageMate-Memory-Reader-SDDR-89-A15/dp/B00064V6RG

or this one by IOGear
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820283010

[Ken Springer]

A real "out in left field" thought... I once had a Dell I was working
on, reinstalling the OS and all software. The camera software installed
and connected to the camera fine here.

When I gave it back to the owner, he reported the camera software did
not work. It didn't see the camera. USB in this case. Went over and
looked at it, and it didn't work. Eventually, I plugged it into the
port I used to install the software, worked fine.

For the port where the camera would not work, every other USB device
worked. Both printers, in this case. I had no clue what the problem was.

The owner got out a magnifying glass and a penlight, and looked at the
wires in the USB port that was the problem. He got in there with some
kind of tool, and pried each wire up just a bit inside the computer port
for better contact, and the problem was solved.

If you can, you might just check that out, at least look inside and see
if something may be displaced.

Nothing to lose, I think.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.3
Firefox 20.0
Thunderbird 17.0.5
LibreOffice 4.0.1.2

[RJK]

"Ken Springer" <word...@greeleynet.com> wrote in message
news:kl6s7q$mii$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

I was going to start spouting about USB port no. eunumeration, until I got
to the part where you mentioned hardware "poor interference" (contact)
problems !
It is always fascinating to me that, (esp. if nasty Autoplay is not
enabled), many computer users are completely unaware that "Windows Explorer"
even exists, don't know what it's for, and that it has always shipped with
Windows,
...also many are completely unaware that Windows assigns the next available
drive letter to a detected mass storage device e.g. a camera card that's
plugged in !!!
Makes one wonder how on earth they manipulate files, and ever find them
again !!! I think they rely entirely on molly-coddling file handling
facilities within a software application without really understanding where
and how files are stored.

I recently had to introduce a chap to Windows Explorer, ( I suppose I could
have led him to "My Computer"....), to keep an eye out that his LG DVD
rewriter drive, (that seemed unhappy operating in AHCI mode), persists each
session, now that it's set to IDE mode. (Asus board SATA ports 1-4 ,(2 x
hd's connected to 1 and 2), in AHCI mode as required by Windows Ultimate ,
ports 3 and 4 now empty, ports 5-6 set to IDE mode, and sata lead for dvd
rewriter and camera card reader bay moved from port (AHCI) ports 3 and 4, to
ports 5 and 6 (now in IDE mode), respectively, ...and his DVD rewriter
drive appears at every boot, whereas before it would be internittently
missing in Windows Explorer, but, seeing as there's been a new IDE LG DVD
rewriter on a shelf here for two years !, if he reports that it's not
appearing every single boot, (as it was for me), I think I'll swap it out
:-)

So there you are, !

...time for bed !

regards, Richard