My card reader and DVD drive failed on my Dell XPS Windows 7 laptop
computer several years ago. Nothing on the right side of the computer
works. Someday I'll get a new computer and it won't be a laptop.
Tina
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why am I so lucky? I've been shooting digital for 12 years and have never
> had an electronic failure of a reader. Maybe because I use mostly internal
> readers? Most of that experience has been with CF cards which were read
> either on my Dell Win XP machine (CF/USB) or on a Dell laptop where I used
> a CF adapter to its ExpressCard port. Now that both computers have been
> upgraded neither has a port for a CF card. But I'm using mostly SD cards
> now and using the built-in SD/USB ports on my HP desktop and Lenovo laptop
> Win 7 machines. Several years ago I bought 3 multi-card/USB readers from
> ebay for $2 each which I used for reading CF cards when using someone
> else's computer. Two of these have failed mechanically in the CF slot due
> to bent pins due to poor design... the insertion slot isn't long enough to
> keep the card properly aligned. I'm now down to one CF reader so I should
> probably buy a better designed spare. But electronic or software failure?
> Never seen it.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 8/23/2014 8:52 PM, Bill Barber via olympus wrote:
>
>> I had the same experience a couple of days ago. Three readers and none
>> would read the card and I finally hooked the camera up to the computer
>> and got
>> my images. Gee, I thought I was just being a dumb ass. Could have
>> something to do with the alignment of the stars. Bill Barber
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 8/23/2014 5:01:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> tmanley@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> PESO:
>>
>> Do all card readers eventually quit working? I have at least 6 here,
>> ranging from the newest Transcend one to several older Belkin ones. None
>> of them work. The computer recognizes that they have been plugged in but
>> will not read any card put in the reader.
>>
>> I finally had to find all of the cords for the cameras involved and
>> download the cards through the cameras!
>>
>> Have you had card readers that have been very reliable?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tina
>>
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