Card reader not seeing SD cards

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ptchernegovski

ptchernegovski

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Hi,

Have an Apacer AE501 card reader. Haven't really used it for SD cards lately. Now that I find myself needing to use it, I have found that when i try to connect a SD or microSD it does not show. However the USB drive it it works fine.
There are no drivers for it listed on the Apacer website, on device manager I can see a USB device as: Unknown USB Device (Device descriptor request failed) Have disabled and re enabled this and still no change. Tried Win 10 Hardware troubleshooter and still nothing.

Thanks for any help
 
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Phillip Corcoran
The driver for any card reader is built in to Windows, hence the manufacturers don't supply a driver since they don't need to.

Card readers can be unreliable beasts. I would try another one and if it works okay, dump your Apacer.

I bought a cheap no-name one that didn't always work, so I bought two branded the same name as two card manufacturers (Lexar & Kingston I think) and they have been very reliable. Got them from Amazon.

With cheap items like card-readers, pen drives etc. it really makes sense to try a new one before posting as that alone could solve the problem.
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The driver for any card reader is built in to Windows, hence the manufacturers don't supply a driver since they don't need to.

Card readers can be unreliable beasts. I would try another one and if it works okay, dump your Apacer.

I bought a cheap no-name one that didn't always work, so I bought two branded the same name as two card manufacturers (Lexar & Kingston I think) and they have been very reliable. Got them from Amazon.

With cheap items like card-readers, pen drives etc. it really makes sense to try a new one before posting as that alone could solve the problem.
 
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