Re: Internal USB flash card reader problem

Sometime on, or about Sun, 8 May 2005 16:36:03 -0700, Sam wrote:

> Sometime on, or about Sun, 8 May 2005 14:06:28 -0700, Sam wrote:
>
>> Sometime in the last month or 6 weeks (I didn't notice exactly when it
>> happened) I lost the function of my internal USB flash 9-1 card reader.
>> Windows sort-of recognizes that it's there, and if I unplug it and replug
>> in the USB cable, I can hear and see it trying to recognize it. The unit
>> itself is OK, since I can plug it into another computer and it works
>> perfectly. Another wrinkle is that I can plug in a SANDisk external USB
>> flash compact flash card reader (single card type of device) and it sees
>> this device just fine.
>>
>> I tried another internal flash card reader and it does the same thing... so
>> at least it's being consistent. In the Device Manager I can see the items
>> in the Human Interface Devices section (HID-compliant consumer control
>> device). Even with a flash card inserted, there's nothing in the My
>> Computer / Removal Storage area (or anywhere else). I've installed any
>> drivers, but it doesn't make any difference. I also tried removing a number
>> of other USB devices to see if that would make a difference, in case of a
>> conflict... so far nothing works. There's a long stretch of unused drive
>> letters from E through L for the item to use (it used to show 4 separate
>> drive letters).
>>
>> I assume that I installed something that's hosed this device... but I don't
>> have a clue as to what it could be.
>>
>> Here's my system:
>> Asus A7N8XE Deluxe (BIOS 1013) with AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and 1 gig RAM.
>> ATI Radeon X800pro video card
>> 1 Seagate 200gig SATA hard-drive
>> 1 Maxtor OneTouch II external hard-drive via firewire connection
>> 1 Sony DRU 720A DVD-RW player
>>
>> I have all the current nVidia motherboard drivers and ATI video drivers
>> installed. Everything else is working just fine.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sam
>
> Just a follow up of a few things I've tried. I deleted all of the USB
> listings in Device Manager and rebooted to let it rebuild everything. I
> also made sure the Removable Storage Service was set to Automatic and had
> been started. No luck so far. I may have to resort to doing a Repair
> installation of XP to see if that helps... hate to do that if I don't have
> to, though.
>
> Sam

I figured this one out finally! I noticed a USB driver called USBHS DFU
Adapter. I wasn't sure what it was so I did a web search for it. I located
an article that said that a update to this driver had hosed his flash card
reader. I rolled it back to the native Windows driver and guess what?
Everything works now.

The bad driver is: "USBHS DFU Adapter SCM Microsystems Inc. usb software
update released on February 18 2005". Not sure where this update came from,
but it's gone now.

Sam
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