Computer newbies forum: hp pavilion memory card reader slot

load the camera's software to read the SD but I wouldn't have thought so. I assume your camera is closing the pics as .jpg. If you're saying that only one slot will read all the different cards then it might be that the SD is not fully seating with the correct pin alignment. Have you tried a different reader just to make sure the card can be read at all??

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Jack

to determine is what is actually at fault here: the laptop's card reader or the SD itself. Have you tried using a different SD just to see if the reader works? Is there another reader available to test the SD? I assume you actually have pics on the SD by virtue of being able to see them on your camera. That means the SD works..but maybe only in the camera. See where I'm going with this?

I have several readers of different types and use several different SD formats (sticks, compact flash, micro/mini SDs). Sometimes a particular reader won't read a SD where another will.

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The memory slot seems to be the culprit. It may be time to contact the manufacturer. The laptop came pre-loaded so all the drivers were installed...or should have been. Sorry about the hardware malfunction. Hope you can get it fixed. Good luck!!

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Hi,

I had the exact same problem with my HP zv6000 laptop. I did a whole lot of searching on the net and found this site which had drivers for my card reader. I typed in your laptop model (dv1000) and came up with this link.

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Other-DRIVERS-TOOLS/Others/HP-Pavilion-dv1108EA-Media-Card-Reader-Driver-1401-A1.shtml


Try downloading and installing this and see if it works. If not you might be able to type in "HP Pavilion dv1000 media card reader drivers" in the search on this site and try downloading the drivers from the links that it brings up. If the actual download link is acting funny and not downloading the actual driver install (as it was doing for me), just click the Mirror site link and it should download the actual driver install file that you need.
Hope this works for you (if you haven't already figured it out)

I have an HP Pavilion ZV6000 (ZV6130US) laptop (2005)running XP pro that wouldn't read any 2GB SD card I tried. The message when I plugged it in was The card is not formated. If I tried to format it it would render the card unreadable by any other device. I updated to this driver and now it reads the SDHC cards. I had exchanged the one I "formated" because even my Vista machine couldn't fix it.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-36022-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=500264&os=228&lang=en

HP media driver support

I find these for less than 5 bucks -> http://www.radioshack.com/sm-digital-concepts-sd-card-reader--pi-2280578.html

Usually it is a card reader that has reached a hardware limitation - i.e. old technology once again left in the dust. This problem is almost always due to the 2GB size read limitation on SD cards and readers around year 2006-2007 hardware. If your card is an SDHC, then the simplest cheapest solution is to go buy an external card reader and plug it into a USB port (from $5 - $20 max).