Trouble with micro sd card

hylax

Having bought a SansDisk Sansa Clip + 8gb player I then acquired an 8 gb micro sd card. When I try to transfer music to the card I get the message " The semaphore timeout period has expired " . When I check the player the card is empty. Any suggestions?

enigma52

and your os is?

hylax

Windows XP

enigma52

is it sp3?

davetrousers

Is it an SDHC problem?

enigma52

no its a driver problem,

hylax

Yes it is SP3

enigma52

then do the following
1. Uninstall SP3, and reboot into SP2.
2. Copy the following files from c:\windows\system32\drivers to somewhere safe: sdbus.sys, sffdisk.sys, sffp_sd.sys. They should all be version 6.0.4061.1 (but version 6.0.4069.1 works too)
3. Install SP3, and reboot.
4. Shutdown, and restart using F8 to go into Safe Mode.
5. Log in as Administrator (or another account with admin rights)
6. In C:\windows\system32\drivers rename each of sdbus.sys, sffdisk.sys and sffp_sd.sys.to have a .old extension.
7. Copy the files you saved in step 2 to c:\windows\systems32\drivers
8. Shutdown and restart normally.

enigma52

or if you have xp with sp2 on cd, then rename the files in sp3 as above and extract the sp2 files from cd

hylax

Thanks enigma52. Being very inexpert I shall have to take some time to digest your instructions. What do you mean "to have a .old extension"?

enigma52

ok take, "sdbus.sys" as an example, right click on it and then rename, change it to "sdbus.old" this stops this driver from loading but saves it if you need to revert back in the future.
All we are doing is putting the original drivers(SP2) back as there is a known problem with the later ones on SP3