Inspiron 6000 - SD Card Reader (Driver?)

Thanks for the help and link to the file... however, when I run the setup, I get the error "This computer does not support this operating system." Is there a way to extract the files from the .cab files, perhaps I can manually install the drivers?

Thanks again for your help.

Hi, I'm Zantei from Japan.
SD Card Slot driver problem on Win2k Pro & Winxp Pro with
DELL's Inspiron 6000 is hot issue in Japan too.

BTW I maybe found a solution. Plase download a file from
below URL.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/exportcompliance.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&fileid=113408&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_9200&category=0&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7818&devlib=7&releaseid=R86531&p=HTTP

when you got this file, try execute this file.
the file will be extracted and install driver automatically.

after driver installed, please check SD Card device on DeviceManager. You can probably find a new device "SDA
-Standard Compliant SD Host Controller" in a new category
"Secure Digital Host Controllers".

Please Let's try! good luck!
I'm waiting your report.

Cheers,
Zantei (from Japan)

Zantei,

Thanks, I was hoping this was going to solve all my problems, but I get the same error as before (Using Windows 2000 Pro-SP4):

"This computer does not support this operating system."

Is there anyway to get around this? Perhaps be able to extract the drivers out of the CAB files?


Thanks for any additional info you can provide.

Hi,Gargravarr,

I've an apology in a part of my comment.
At previous week, I tested the file on winxp Pro SP1 only.
Win2k Pro SP4 was not tested. So I didn't know that can't
work the driver on W2k.

I'm interested to this issue(can use SDIO on Inspiron 6000
with Win2k SP4).

Please any information for this issue, If you have.
Thanks.

Best Regards,
Zantei

I downloaded this file. The howtoinstall.txt file was unreadable. I tried to use the update driver option in the hardware manager and pointed it to the downloaded files.

It seemed to install, but after the reboot, I now have the following entry in my hardware manager with a yellow !:

SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller.

It has the following error:
This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)

Well i did recieve mine Inspiron 6000 yesterday i installed my own 2003 licence
i hate when you live in sweden and cant choose the english version from dell on the os

and the sd card reader do work with mine 2003 after
i downloaded the "www.maxselect.ru/binary/drivers/notebooks/TravelBook_TZ/SD_Card.zip"
be sure to install all drivers properly i got the device working all fine now thanks Zantei for your help much appreciated !!!

And i needed to have the sd card to install this device to...

Hey,

i tried downloading that, but it says that my system doesnt support it. is there anything else i can do?

Yes install the device thru device manager "update driver" and search for drivers select the desired folder and let windows installer search for drivers (.inf files) where the driver package is and let windows install it it self and you may need the "sd card inserted to be able to install all things correct" hope this guides you in the right way...

Problem solved for Windows 2000 Professional :) What we need is the driver for the controller Ricoh R5C841, which controls both the Cardbus and the SD reader. The driver can be obtained from various websites, e.g., ASUS V6V notebook uses the same controller

(http://usa.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=3&l2_id=45&l3_id=0&m_id=1&f_name=CardReader_050118.zip~zaqwedc).

Message Edited by yclei on 04-27-2005 05:14 AM

Message Edited by yclei on 04-27-2005 05:15 AM

Thanks all of you guys.

I have an i6000 with xp home and the sd reader just stopped working, even after i uninstalled and reistalled the driver. I finally found your post and downloaded the driver from from asus. I think there is a newer version then the one you mentioned, v2.3. There is a folder that is called SD in the folder labeled R5C8xxMediaDriverSetup213 which contains three files that start with Risdptsk. Copy the SD folder to any random directory and specify the SD folder as the target file when installing it. Thanks for the info, as you started me off, I just wanted to update your info. Thanks!