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REALTEK MEMORY CARD READER DRIVER
Hello all...hopefully someone can help me. I am using a Dell Inspiron 15 3521 with Win 8.1. After performing a clean install of Win 8 with Dell's Recovery Disk that they sent me, I get to the desk top with no major issues. I begin with updating drivers from Dell's Download and Drivers page and type in my service tag. I install Chipset drivers first(Intel hm77 and Intel Management Engine Interface) and restart after each one. I then install the Realtek Card Reader. I proceed on with all of the rest of the updates and follow Dell's guide to reinstalling drivers. After the machine sets for about a half hour or so, a message appears in Action Center(flag in notification area) that states "install memory card reader driver". That message says that there is a solution, and the solution pushes me to Realtek's wesite and to download a driver for RTS 5129/5139. Dell's site states RTS 5179. Anyways, the only way I can get that message to clear is to download a driver from Realtek's site. Since then I have upgraded to Win 8.1 from the MS Store and all went well. With the exception that I still get that same error. I have tried uninstalling. restarting, redownloading that file for both 8 and 8.1 but that doesn't take the message away. Can someone point me in the right direction or have any clues why Windows is doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
DELL-Ravi Ch
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April 28th, 2014 08:00
Hi cammac468,
Please follow the steps below to run the test on Card reader on the system.
1. Open the link http://dell.to/14YjKb2
2. Select ‘Hardware’ under ‘Let's diagnose your issue’.
3. Select ‘Card reader’.
4. Click on ‘Run Diagnostics’ button.
5. Let me know if the results.
Also, please check if you find the card reader under ‘Universal Serial Bus Controllers’in device manager.
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April 28th, 2014 21:00
DELL-Ravi Ch
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April 23rd, 2014 20:00
Hi cammac468,
I would suggest you to update the BIOS and then the Card reader driver from our Dell support site in sequence. Also, please reply us with the snapshot of the popup message you are receiving to update the card reader.
In addition, reply us with the snapshot of the device manager.
cammac468
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April 23rd, 2014 21:00
here is the snapshot of the device manager
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April 23rd, 2014 21:00
BIOS was updated last year to A12.
Card reader was uninstalled today...downloaded and reinstalled with the error I originally complained about in the post above.
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April 28th, 2014 21:00