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Built in card reader not working.
Name: whiskywheels Date: July 10, 2008 at 02:14:01 Pacific OS: XP SP3 CPU/Ram: P4 3.4GHz/1.5Gb ram Product: Advent 9102
Comment:
I have a built in card reader on my Pc. It's suddenly stopped working, and all the icons for the different card slots have disappeared from 'My Computer'. I ran system restore, but no difference. I reinstalled the software from the PC applications backup software, but no difference. Any ideas?
Name: clive_pearce Date: July 10, 2008 at 02:47:45 Pacific
Reply:
Try this
Start * Contol Panel * Performance and Maintenance * Administrative Tools * Services * Smart Card( check if its active and started manually) * If not click twice and start it ,then click ok. * Reboot your computer (I shut it down holding the main button in for a few sec)
If thats ok, remove the cables from the motherboard. Boot the pc, shutdown, reconnect the cables & reboot.
This keeps on happening on my Scaleo T.
Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: July 10, 2008 at 03:14:07 Pacific
Reply:
If still no joy with the above suggestion, try remove and reinstall all USB controllers.
Name: whiskywheels Date: July 11, 2008 at 09:37:24 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks very much for your helpful and speedy replies. I followed Clive's suggestion and the problem is resolved! Seems a bit weird why it happenned, and the solution also, but all seems OK now! Thanks again!
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