I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 two weeks ago, every thing works fine
except for the built-in ricoh 5in1 card reader. When i use a ms card, a
xD card or a mmc card i have no problem, but when i want to use my 1 GB
SD card, i cant read it, and the Explorer always wants to format the
card. I installed the lastest drivers available from dell website and
didnt work.
When i format the card in the laptop i cant read it in other devices (I
use this card on a HP hx4700 with WM 5.0).
Any Suggestions to fix the Problem?

"saxonbeta" <saxonbeta******.com> wrote in message
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> I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 two weeks ago, every thing works fine
> except for the built-in ricoh 5in1 card reader. When i use a ms card,
> a xD card or a mmc card i have no problem, but when i want to use my
> 1 GB SD card, i cant read it, and the Explorer always wants to format
> the card. I installed the lastest drivers available from dell website
> and didnt work.
> When i format the card in the laptop i cant read it in other devices
> (I use this card on a HP hx4700 with WM 5.0).
> Any Suggestions to fix the Problem?

You can read xD cards? I never had seen a computer to be able to read
them yet. And I have been looking for years. I am glad someone can read
them. As those are the only cards I own. <sigh>

Mine only reads 4-in-1 Digital Media Manager; Secure Digital, Memory
Stick, Memory Stick-Pro, and MMC. :(

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Bill

"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> "saxonbeta" <saxonbeta******.com> wrote in message
> news:1166982777.404280.176890@n51g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com
>> I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 two weeks ago, every thing works fine
>> except for the built-in ricoh 5in1 card reader. When i use a ms card,
>> a xD card or a mmc card i have no problem, but when i want to use my
>> 1 GB SD card, i cant read it, and the Explorer always wants to format
>> the card. I installed the lastest drivers available from dell website
>> and didnt work.
>> When i format the card in the laptop i cant read it in other devices
>> (I use this card on a HP hx4700 with WM 5.0).
>> Any Suggestions to fix the Problem?
>
> You can read xD cards? I never had seen a computer to be able to read them
> yet. And I have been looking for years. I am glad someone can read them.
> As those are the only cards I own. <sigh>
>
> Mine only reads 4-in-1 Digital Media Manager; Secure Digital, Memory
> Stick, Memory Stick-Pro, and MMC. :(
>
> --
> Bill

My HP dv6045nr reads XD cards just fine...

Honu

"Hertz_Donut" <nowhere@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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>> "saxonbeta" <saxonbeta******.com> wrote in message
>> news:1166982777.404280.176890@n51g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com
>>> I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 two weeks ago, every thing works fine
>>> except for the built-in ricoh 5in1 card reader. When i use a ms
>>> card,
>>> a xD card or a mmc card i have no problem, but when i want to use my
>>> 1 GB SD card, i cant read it, and the Explorer always wants to
>>> format
>>> the card. I installed the lastest drivers available from dell
>>> website
>>> and didnt work.
>>> When i format the card in the laptop i cant read it in other devices
>>> (I use this card on a HP hx4700 with WM 5.0).
>>> Any Suggestions to fix the Problem?
>>
>> You can read xD cards? I never had seen a computer to be able to read
>> them yet. And I have been looking for years. I am glad someone can
>> read them. As those are the only cards I own. <sigh>
>>
>> Mine only reads 4-in-1 Digital Media Manager; Secure Digital, Memory
>> Stick, Memory Stick-Pro, and MMC. :(
>
> My HP dv6045nr reads XD cards just fine...


That is so cool Honu! I wish mine did. <sigh>

--
Bill

Hey,

I just got a 6400 too from Dell about a week ago, and it reads the
cards ok. Have you tried re-installing the drivers? These multi-card
readers can be annoying sometimes.

I had a question about the card readers...

When you put the SD in there, does it lock in place with a spring?
Because mine does. But when I try putting a memory stick in there, it
won't lock into place? Do you have that problem too?

~Anh

saxonbeta wrote:
> I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 two weeks ago, every thing works fine
> except for the built-in ricoh 5in1 card reader. When i use a ms card, a
> xD card or a mmc card i have no problem, but when i want to use my 1 GB
> SD card, i cant read it, and the Explorer always wants to format the
> card. I installed the lastest drivers available from dell website and
> didnt work.
> When i format the card in the laptop i cant read it in other devices (I
> use this card on a HP hx4700 with WM 5.0).
> Any Suggestions to fix the Problem?

I had the same issue with an Inspiron 6400 with the Ricoh SD card reader error.

I finally found a driver that worked at the following website:

Ricoh 5-in-1 Card Reader Host Controller*Compaq Presario V3199TU Notebook PC

After installing this driver (sp32825.exe) and rebooting, I stuck my 1GB SD card in and was able to read it.

Good luck!