I managed to get my card slots to work for a while by reinstalling the drivers. It seemed that a driver from Pinnacle for the USB HD TV tuner driver was driving the USB device related to the card slots. I reinstalled the Windows drivers and all was well... for a while.
I placed an XD card in the SD/XD slot and it read fine.
Today after a reboot, about half the day the drive letters were showing. I went out and took pictures. When I put the card in the card slots the drive letters had gone.
I'm not sure that the Pinnacle USB TV is the only culprit. What might happen is that Windows Media software goes and looks for a TV guide only to mess up the system.
The other thought I had is that maybe I have too many hard drives in my system - but these are USB ports so that shouldn't matter - should it? I have 3 internal drives partitioned and an external USB drive, plus the card slots, plus my Epson R300 printer seems to want to take a drive letter - which I can't read.
Once again when the drive letters disappeared I also had an HP iPAQ hx2415 and an Apple iPhone plugged into USB ports - as well as various other printers, in all about 10 USB devices linked to powered hubs.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
More thoughts on disappearing memory card slot letters
I did find a couple of other things to check if your memory card slot letters - like drive letters - disappear.
1. I do believe that some services were turned off that should have been on - I'm not sure exactly what services these are - but some are regarding cards, others Windows Media.
2. I rebooted the machine and the drive letters corresponding to the memory slots on my HP a6152n computer were showing. After I'd plugged my PDA (Windows Mobile 5 iPAQ) and iPhone into their USB ports the drive letters disappeared.
3. I had another problem on one occasion when the drive letters appeared - when I put the card in the slot - despite the green light illuminating - it was unrecognized and the computer told me to put the card in - but it was there already. Maybe I needed patience.
4. I then turned on services that I thought might be needed - unplugged my PDA and iPhone and rebooted - the drive letters reappeared. I put the memory card in - it was read - Windows Media software said there was nothing on it. Horrors - the finder, shell, explorer - whatever you call the basic Vista OS view of the files showed my pictures on the card. I copied them to the computer - finally...
I believe the computer sometimes runs out of resources or has conflicts on the USB ports - maybe it just takes time for all the software to load.
Hope this helps anyone who has similar problems.
1. I do believe that some services were turned off that should have been on - I'm not sure exactly what services these are - but some are regarding cards, others Windows Media.
2. I rebooted the machine and the drive letters corresponding to the memory slots on my HP a6152n computer were showing. After I'd plugged my PDA (Windows Mobile 5 iPAQ) and iPhone into their USB ports the drive letters disappeared.
3. I had another problem on one occasion when the drive letters appeared - when I put the card in the slot - despite the green light illuminating - it was unrecognized and the computer told me to put the card in - but it was there already. Maybe I needed patience.
4. I then turned on services that I thought might be needed - unplugged my PDA and iPhone and rebooted - the drive letters reappeared. I put the memory card in - it was read - Windows Media software said there was nothing on it. Horrors - the finder, shell, explorer - whatever you call the basic Vista OS view of the files showed my pictures on the card. I copied them to the computer - finally...
I believe the computer sometimes runs out of resources or has conflicts on the USB ports - maybe it just takes time for all the software to load.
Hope this helps anyone who has similar problems.
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