[haysey9]

Hiya all just an annoying query re SD cards and my intergrated card reader. I have always had trouble with my reader and never had confidence in it. I have recently bought new cards and I find that when I try to use them it brings up the not responding logo. More strangly when I attempt to formatt all the cards it tells me that the card is write protected which it is not. I would appreciate any ideas, Brilliant forums here, very informative, and we are all still learnibg. Thanks in advance K.

[redden137]

firstly is the card reader installed properly, i.e are drivers installed. reader wired properly to your m/b
some new cards have a tiny slide on the side of them to lock and unlock them
can you check the cards on another pc and see if you get the same result?

[haysey9]

hiya all, just an upcate on my prob. I have investigated into the depths that is my computer and discovered that a fan has snapped off a heatsync on my graphics card. I duly contacted the manufacturer(medion) only to discover that my machine was indeed within the 3 year warranty by just 5 days so they are sending me a new graphics card FOC. I will keep you posted, thanks for your help. PS should I get a lottery ticket with this luck?. K.

[philthomas]

Not sure how a new Graphics Card will help you with your Card Reader problem

[Cew27]

good to hear you get the graphics card foc
also as for the card reader go to device manager in control panel, select you card reader and then re-install the drivers or click update drivers

[captain1950]

Hi, I have built-in card readers on my desktop. Up until recently when I inserted a card the card would be seen in XP explore and my computer. The drves also showed up when no card was inserted.

Now I go to explore or my computer and the drives do-not show up. When I insert a card only the Canon photo impotrer opens up. The inserted card is not recognised by XP explore or my computer.

Any thoughts?