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vista regards to plug and play

Aug 1, 2007 7:56AM PDT

I have a new laptop w/ Vista on it. I recently tried to put my SD and Memory Stick into the built in card reader. It sayd I need a driver for each, but when I download the driver it still doesn't work. Is it Vista or is it the laptop?

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Neither. It's the drivers.
Aug 1, 2007 9:36AM PDT

Vista (IMO) has done little to remove the load from the owner in finding drivers.

There is something very odd here though. A new laptop with Vista would need no driver to use the builtin card reader. At least no laptop I've encountered made the owner do this.

But let me share that my Cpq R3000 reader has limits. It won't read 2 or 4GB SD cards. For that I have to use another usb reader.

Bob

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Vista and drivers'
Aug 1, 2007 10:36AM PDT

Toshiba P205-6277 w/ Vista. I tried loading the drivers', but it still doesn't work. I loaded it from a cd as well, but was unsuccessful. The CD wasn't made for Vista, but for Windows' XP (Casio Exilim Camera) and I downloaded the driver for my sony camera off of the website and this didn't work for me either.

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Cameras can be a pain.
Aug 1, 2007 12:01PM PDT

But I'm working with a partial story here. The camera software must be for Vista (so far in my experience.) So this is why I fall back to the card reader and if the laptop's card reader doesn't support the memory size or make I try an external USB card reader.

Looking forward to those little missing details.

Bob