pc not reading card reader

Chuzzle

took some pictures on my camera and stuck the card straight in the card reader on the pc - worked fine yesterday now it isn't.:o the green light flashes as if the pc is reading it but the window doesn't pop up to ask what I want to do and when I double click on the drive in MY COMPUTER it freezes for a few seconds and then the pc goes really slow and doesn't respond until I take the card out.

Any suggestions?

closed

Did you safely remove hardware when you took it out, could be corrupt. Many camera's allow you to attach them to a pc with a usb lead as well.

JasX

try with a different card? reinstall driver/software that the cad reader came with? check the card works ok in something else?

Chuzzle

card reader isn't on a usb it's already in the pc.

Can't try a different card as its the only one I got.

I always safely remove the hardware, I deleted all photos off it yesterday and then took some more this morning - i can see the pictures when I look on the camera. Unfortunately this camera doesn't have the ability for me to connect it direct to the pc with a usb cable.

What will it be under on device manager and then I'll try to uninstall and re-install the driver.

JasX

Chuzzle wrote: »

What will it be under on device manager and then I'll try to uninstall and re-install the driver.

look under USB -quite a few internal ones are actually USB but have a direct cabled connection to one of the motherboards USB connection pins (ie same MB connection you'd find a USB socket connected to if you ever traced its cable around inside your PC)

espresso

Before messing with drivers, try this:

If the card reader drives aren't showing up in windows Explorer, or you can't read the cards themselves, then it could be that there is static build-up which needs to be removed.

Shut down the PC, but instead of removing the power cable from the back of the machine, flick the switch to "0" and make sure the cable is still connected to the wall socket as usual. Now hold in the power button (on the front of the PC) for 30 to 45 seconds, which should be long enough to discharge any static build-up. Now flick the switch on the back of the unit back to "1" and restart your PC again.

penrhyn

OP, It not a Dell Inspiron 530 or 531 is it?

Chuzzle

Penrhyn - no its not its one built by a small independant shop.

Espresso - I'll give that a go later I'm at work atm!