USB card reader: Hit and miss?

[bonanza]

Hi, I use a Transcend multicard reader to read my SD card. Sometimes the card is detected sometimes not. Why is that??

system:
mobo: Asus P5Q Pro
proc: intel E7500
psu: Corsair VX450


Thanks.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: bonanza
Hi, I use a Transcend multicard reader to read my SD card. Sometimes the card is detected sometimes not. Why is that??

system:
mobo: Asus P5Q Pro
proc: intel E7500
psu: Corsair VX450


Thanks.

bad drive more than likely...they make these rather disposable now (hell some are made so some cards are face up and others go face down).

I picked up a Super Talent recently and it's nice, but the USB drive still goes in upside down.

 

[bonanza]

thanks.

in fact, I didn't install any driver for that. It's on windows XP sp 2, the driver that came with the device (in cd) state that it's for win 2000 (sp1, sp2) and mac os 9.x. So I thought no necessary for driver installation on win xp.

 

[alkemyst]

not driver...the drive may be bad.

 

[ecom]

I have one at work (not Transcend) that had a similar issue with SD cards. I opened it up and found that the SD slot has a metal cover over the circuit board and is soldered on at a few points. One of the points had a broken solder joint (cold solder joint?) and after I soldered that leg back on, it worked fine afterwards.

Pain in the ass, and it might be easier just to get a new one to be honest though but that depends on how much your time is worth.

I just bought a Kingston drive for personal use. At $12, it cost about twice what the other ones cost, but a lot better compared to the old one I had. It can read 20 MBps while the old one did only 5MBps.