Cannot Install Driver for SD Card Reader in Samsung R519  

Up until now I've never used the SD Card reader in my laptop, but now I want to use it however it's not showing up under My Computer. I have downloaded the 'MS Hotfix MemoryCard' listed under Software (which only appears for WinXP) here:
Support for NP-R519

But when I try to install (Running as Administrator), the command prompt flashes for a second then nothing happens. I've tried restarting anyway in case it had installed but my SD card is still not recognised. I've also tried running in compatibility mode with WinXP SP2 and Vista SP2 - no luck.

This card reader apparently is SDHC compatible, but my card is only 2GB anyway so its 100% compatible. I've done a google search and it seems a lot of people have problems with this one particular device/driver.

Also I've looked under Device Manager but I'm not sure where it would be listed, though I'm confident its actually not listed at all.

So what should I try next? I'd rather get it working than have to buy an adapter.

Ah right.

Nope nothing happens when I put the card in, no sound or anything. I've even tried searching for it which does nothing. The card is formatted (I've used my camera to hook it up previously and move files to and from it), its definitely a software side problem.

Theres no yellow exclamation marks in device manager, here's a shot of the USB tab, not sure which one is the SD and like I said I'm not sure if its even listed as the laptop isn't picking it up at all.



One last thing I forgot to mention is this laptop was originally a Vista laptop, but because I bought as Win7 was released I got a free upgrade and hence had to download all the new drivers from that site, but of course the SD Card reader wasn't included or has some other problem.

In Device Manager, I clicked Action > Add Legacy Device and found two things:

Under SD host Adapters: Found something by 'Ricoh'
Under Memory technology driver: Found 'Realtek PCIE CardReader'

After adding both, they have the yellow triangle next to them with error code 31. I've searched on google and downloaded countless drivers for both manufacturers and it's still not working. Looks like I'm a tad closer to finding a solution now hopefully someone here may be more familiar with these.

Ok I'm getting close now. Using DriverMax I was able to install a bunch of driver updates, and since, there has been a new entry in Device Manager:

> IDE ATA/ADAPI controllers
>> Ricoh PCIE SD Bus Host Adapter

When double clicking on it, it says:

"No drivers are installed for this device.", but there's no yellow triangle like under the SD Host Adapters section, so I removed that. Now, here's what it says in Driver File Details:

Provider: REDC
File Version: 6.13.03.04
Copyright: Copyright c 2001-2010, Ricoh Company Ltd.,
Digital Signer: Not digitally signed

Under the details tab > Property > Driver Node Strong Name:

Code:

oem39.inf:Ricoh:R5U822_Inst:6.13.3.4:pci\ven_1180&dev_e822

There's more info if needed but hopefully there's just a simple option to get this working now.

OK instead of just installing drivers willy nilly hoping something will fix it, ain't gonna work.
If you post the make (yeh Samsung) model and all the other details I can look up the spec. for it and should be able to post you a link to the correct driver.

I did in the OP.