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.?

plug the wire internaly to a usb port on the board. if its not reading its probably dead.

hmm what wire?

the wire should be attached to the back of the floppy. is it not there?

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.

anyone have any clue on where to plug this into on a A8N-SLI deluxe MB?

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.

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.

Me neither. Now imagine this:

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-15 ... sktop.html

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.....

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.

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").

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).