Windows 7 Doesn't Detect My Internal Card Reader

[deadman_uk]

I have an internal card reader which plugs into a USB header on my motherboard. I've been using this card reader with Windows 7 x64 for several months now and it's been working fine. I never needed to install drivers, it was detected by Windows 7 and worked fine. I recently installed new hardware including processor, RAM, graphics card and motherboard. I also performed a format and clean install of Windows 7 on my SSD. The card reader lights up on the front, and it's single USB port works perfectly, yet the card reading functions themselves do not work. An unknown USB device is listed in device manager with a yellow exclamation mark next to it. Windows Update cannot detect this USB device, and right clicking and selecting "update" tells me that the best drivers have been installed. I know this unknown device is my card reader as when I unplug it from my motherboard, the unknown device is gone.

I have the latest chipset drivers installed, latest BIOS, latest USB drivers from the Asrock website. I also uninstalled the unknown device and rebooted. I even uninstalled the USB host controllers and rebooted, but this did not help. Furthermore, I have tried plugging this into another USB header and enabled USB legacy in the BIOS but it is no use.

Can anyone help?

 

[m_isom]

Check the USB header pin outs from last board to new board? Didn't think this was an issue for newer boards, but there used to be several ways the pins could be arranged. Try the card reader in another PC and see if it works it might have burned out.

 

[deadman_uk]

Check the USB header pin outs from last board to new board? Didn't think this was an issue for newer boards, but there used to be several ways the pins could be arranged. Try the card reader in another PC and see if it works it might have burned out.

Pin is fine. When i plug USB ports into this header (so they pop out of the back of my PC) these ports work fine. The card reader lights up, and it's single USB port works fine, just the card reading function is broken. Appears Windows cannot find a driver for it, but no driver was given (or needed) in the past. This card reader has no brand or device name, it's just known as "Extra Value All in 1 Internal Card Reader Plus One USB2.0 Port (Black)"

Purchased it here but the picture differs from what I have. Appears to be a common problem.

 

[palaciav]

Try popping out the key pin on the USB cable from the card reader to the board? Its the fifth pin that doesn't have a partner below it. I've seen a couple card readers that don't work with that pin connected for some reason.

(VCC) (Neg) (Pos) (Gnd) (Key) <-------- this one
(VCC) (Neg) (Pos) (Gnd) ( )

 

[wayout2day]

if it helps...On laptops/notebooks/netbooks, I have seen a number of card readers requiring me to install drivers, after installing windows 7. Texas Instruments is a brand, as well as Ricoh. You could use ChipGenius or some like program to find the chips used.

 

[deadman_uk]

Try popping out the key pin on the USB cable from the card reader to the board? Its the fifth pin that doesn't have a partner below it. I've seen a couple card readers that don't work with that pin connected for some reason.

(VCC) (Neg) (Pos) (Gnd) (Key) <-------- this one
(VCC) (Neg) (Pos) (Gnd) ( )

Any suggestions on how to pull this pin out?

if it helps...On laptops/notebooks/netbooks, I have seen a number of card readers requiring me to install drivers, after installing windows 7. Texas Instruments is a brand, as well as Ricoh. You could use ChipGenius or some like program to find the chips used.

Chip Genius wasn't much help

 

[palaciav]

Any suggestions on how to pull this pin out?

Just use a knife, or something with a point. If you look at the side of the connector, there's just a little flap holding the pin in. Bend it away a bit, the pull on the specific cable for that pin. Should come out pretty easily.