built in card reader just stopped working!!!

stradibarrius

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I have a Windows 7 machine, HP, that came with a card reader already installed. It has worked perfectly for bout a year. Two days ago I used it no problems. Yesterday I slide a CF card, like always , into the slot and nothing.
The computer does not seem to know the card reader is there any longer????
How can I get to computer to find the card reader?

 

Ian Grant

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Try going to the Control Panel and Installing New Hardware, under Hardware & Sound, sometimes the OS looses information if it gets corrupted. Also try another CF card first.

Ian

 

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• Feb 10, 2011

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Thanks Ian. After trying that and many other things including running my program that cleans up my registry, viruses etc and then re-starting my computer to no avail, I just turned the damn thing of and let it sit for a while. When I turned it back on it works fine so situation resolved.
Thanks for the response.

 

Jerry Basierbe

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• Feb 10, 2011

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I also have an HP with a built in card reader. I've noticed recently that when downloading using it, the download process has slowed way down.
The last download I did, I used my portable card reader and the download went normally again. Not sure what's going on. I'll just keep using the
portable reader I guess.

Jerry