I have a fairly old Acer laptop, Aspire E5-573.
I've been running win10 since I got it, 2 years ago, with no problem.
The SD card reader used to work, I'm 99.9999% positive, but now it
doesn't.
Doesn't work with 2 different SD cards, file managers don't even know
the reader is there. USB-Safely-Remove, a 3rd party program, knows its
there but says the card is ready for safe removal. I'm sure that's
because it's never been connected to Windows.
How do I make it work? Do I need software? Thank you.
On 8/11/2023 10:58 PM, micky wrote:
I have a fairly old Acer laptop, Aspire E5-573.
I've been running win10 since I got it, 2 years ago, with no problem.
The SD card reader used to work, I'm 99.9999% positive, but now it
doesn't.
Doesn't work with 2 different SD cards, file managers don't even know
the reader is there. USB-Safely-Remove, a 3rd party program, knows its
there but says the card is ready for safe removal. I'm sure that's
because it's never been connected to Windows.
How do I make it work? Do I need software? Thank you.
0bda:0159 USB Mass Storage Device
But it only appears in Device Manager, when an SD is inserted into the slot. >RTS5159 card reader. Made by Realtek in my case.
That's my laptop.
If it describes its class as USB Mass Storage, the Mass Storage class
driver should run it, without additional software. It should work as
easy as a USB flash drive.
This behavior is not helpful (staying hidden if no media is plugged in), >because it makes the device harder to debug.
In any case, look in the Device Manager, USB section, then look for "Mass Storage"
while an SD is plugged in.
Mine doesn't have a LED, so there's no way to know what is going on.
If you're a rich guy, you can get yourself a USB pen-drive like device,
which has an SD slot on the side. That can be used to verify the SD is good. >There are also a few bigger card readers, with a USB cord on the end
of them, for the same purpose.
The very newest devices, are USB3, and can handle the media that
runs at 95MB/sec. That's the media that is used in some of the fancy
cameras. There may be faster SD standards than that, but I would guess
the 95MB/sec flavor is more common. There's some video standard,
where the camera shoots video at 50MB/sec or so. For comparison,
my camera might shoot video at 3MB/sec (snoozer).
Paul
I have a fairly old Acer laptop, Aspire E5-573.
I've been running win10 since I got it, 2 years ago, with no problem.
The SD card reader used to work, I'm 99.9999% positive, but now it
doesn't.
Doesn't work with 2 different SD cards, file managers don't even know
the reader is there. USB-Safely-Remove, a 3rd party program, knows its
there but says the card is ready for safe removal. I'm sure that's
because it's never been connected to Windows.
How do I make it work? Do I need software? Thank you.
Look yet in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) to check for yellow exclamation marks denoting problems with hardware?
VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
Look yet in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) to check for yellow exclamation
marks denoting problems with hardware?
I see in your reply to Paul that you got around to checking Device
Manager to notice the card reader was disabled. Hmm, wondered how that happened.
On 8/12/2023 2:05 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
Look yet in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) to check for yellow exclamation >>> marks denoting problems with hardware?
I see in your reply to Paul that you got around to checking Device
Manager to notice the card reader was disabled. Hmm, wondered how that
happened.
I would guess someone wanted to make some empty drive letters disappear :-)
Paul
Look yet in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) to check for yellow exclamation
marks denoting problems with hardware?
I see in your reply to Paul that you got around to checking Device
Manager to notice the card reader was disabled. Hmm, wondered how that happened.
In my humblest of opinions, there's nothing better than this for USB
debug.
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html
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