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Getting the 7in1 Floppy to read cards?
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Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:00 am ]
Post subject:  Getting the 7in1 Floppy to read cards?
I got this awhile ago from MB but never tried to use it till now. How do you get these to read SD cards ect.?
Author:  Denty [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:08 am ]
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plug the wire internaly to a usb port on the board. if its not reading its probably dead.
Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:25 pm ]
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hmm what wire?
Author:  Denty [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:58 pm ]
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the wire should be attached to the back of the floppy. is it not there?
Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:10 pm ]
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all that's there is the ide cable? I'll give it another look though just to be sure.

Just looked & sure enough. I'll do a shut down here in abit once this show is over to hook it up & see if it works lol.
Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:01 pm ]
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anyone have any clue on where to plug this into on a A8N-SLI deluxe MB?
Author:  Flama22 [ Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:20 am ]
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IDE Cable for a card reader?

I've only ever installed one of these before and it was a pain getting it to work but it was done through the USB header on the motherboard like Denty mentioned.

If you could get/find us a photo it would probably help. :)
Author:  Sampson_X_Y [ Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:00 am ]
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Once you get it connected it will show up in most version of windows as having added like 12 new HDD's.
I personally can't stand those things.
There should be 3 USB headers at the bottom of your motherboard (I assume ATX setup, in a tower).
Each one should look like 2 rows of pins (5 on top, 4 on bottom) and have blue plastic at the base of each header.
According to the manual I have for that board, they should be:
5V+/USB-/USB+/Ground/Ground
5V+/USB-/USB+/Ground/

The second ground on the top row is for USB connectors that have a ground wrap, so you don't need to use it if you're just connecting 4 individual pins.
Author:  Flama22 [ Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:48 am ]
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Sampson_X_Y wrote:
Once you get it connected it will show up in most version of windows as having added like 12 new HDD's.
I personally can't stand those things.


Me neither. Now imagine this: :(

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-15 ... sktop.html
Author:  sswilson [ Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:13 pm ]
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Heh.... yeah I made the mistake of leaving one plugged in the last time I reloaded XP and it messed up my boot drive letter..... :)
Author:  lobstaMan [ Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:26 pm ]
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I dunno what kind of card readers you guys have but I have one of those 52-1 jobbies and mine only shows as 4 drives.
Author:  lobstaMan [ Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:27 pm ]
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sswilson wrote:
Heh.... yeah I made the mistake of leaving one plugged in the last time I reloaded XP and it messed up my boot drive letter..... :)


Never had that problem before either and I format often and with the reader always plugged in also.
Author:  sswilson [ Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:43 pm ]
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lobstaMan wrote:
sswilson wrote:
Heh.... yeah I made the mistake of leaving one plugged in the last time I reloaded XP and it messed up my boot drive letter..... :)


Never had that problem before either and I format often and with the reader always plugged in also.


Yeah, I found it quite strange.....

I reload fairly often as well, and have had this 7-in-1 card reader for at least 3 years and only had it happen once.

Must have been something wierd about the order I did things in or something, but it seems to me that the boot drive came out as higher than the USB drives (something like "H drive").
Author:  Graehaus [ Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:41 pm ]
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I have one of the 7n1/floppies, and just recently, I believe Friday, they conked out, like disappeared, this after, my daughter tried to read a sd card in my printer(which has a SD card slot), which it did read, but after that the 3 or four drives that showed up in XP, they all disappeared.

I tried to reinstall, but no luck, any one know ho to reclaim them?
Author:  sswilson [ Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:59 pm ]
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Graehaus wrote:
I have one of the 7n1/floppies, and just recently, I believe Friday, they conked out, like disappeared, this after, my daughter tried to read a sd card in my printer(which has a SD card slot), which it did read, but after that the 3 or four drives that showed up in XP, they all disappeared.

I tried to reinstall, but no luck, any one know ho to reclaim them?


Only thing I can think of is to force a new hardware detection like you would for a USB mouse/keyboard.....

Try connecting it to a different motherboard usb header. (Powered off of course).
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