7-1 media card reader won't work

is the card formatted?

hmm... Are the drivers for the thing loaded?

I have one of the card readers in my desktop, and it's worked fine for most types of cards I've used. I did have an issue with an SD card though. My wife's camera has one.

It's worked some of the time, others it won't recognize, so I just use the usb port that came with her camera. Not sure why it's so picky.

In my system, the front usb ports show up in my computer as usb storage devices and are always listed though there's nothing attached. When I put a card into the card reader, sometimes it reports as one of those usb inputs. Try putting the SD card in, and clicking on all the drives that show up in my computer to see if it's getting reassigned to another drive letter.

When you remove the card, you might want to use the "safely remove hardware" icon in the icon tray and remove it that way. I've removed usb hardware before without using that procedure, and the next time I plug the device back in it doesn't show up.

Info please
1. what laptop do you have?
2. what OS are you using?

ok same problem happen to me, Click on the G drive, while you have the SD card in. If that doesn't work, Try them all

EDIT: make sure you don't have the card in the "Lock poistion"

Access the bios (F2 when the system is booting), then go to Advanced, enter the Advanced Chipset Control, and enable it. That should do it. Press F10 to save and exit out of the bios menu.

If there's a bios setting like mechanix said, it'll likely fix you up.

I checked AW's ftp and there's no driver listed for the 7700 card reader. With my desktop, the drivers are installed automatically through windows xp, so if you do the bios thing and still have the problem, go into the device manager and uninstall the card reader, then reboot.

It should give you the "found new hardware" box on reboot, then let it search the web for the right drivers. Hopefully it will find and load them automatically.

The above two posts should be all you need to get it working. As long as the media card reader is enabled in the BIOS Windows should automagicly install the drivers. The properties info on my 7700 shows MS as the provider for the driver files for the media card reader.

hi,
i have a 7700 notebook and i also had problems with the card reader.
first of all - the installation. if you have enabled the reader in the bios then you should see a green symbol of an sd-card next to the "hdd-usage"-icon below your laptop's tft.
for this card reader you don't need any special drivers. they are already implemented in windows, at least in xpsp2.
if your card reader is working and correctly installed you should see in "my computer" 4 removable drives. one of them for each cardreader slot.
if you insert the sd card, the cardreader led (below the tft) should flicker to signalize data flow. then the windows "device inserted" box should open. if not, you might have deactiveted autorun. go to "my computer" and try to open all the 4 removable drives. the sd-slot should be the third drive i think (g: or h: or so)

if it doesn't work, go to the control panel, administration, computer administration (i don't know whats the correct name in english windows). select storage and then storage administration (or drive administration or whatever it is called). now you should see a list of installed drives (hdd, changeable and cd-drive) on the right side of the window. in the top list you see all drives with media inserted. there you should see all your hdds and the sd-card.

-dominik