SDHC ReadyBoost Card Stops Boot Process ?

Sure, it's not their money, but modern architecture SHOULD be able to handle it (not my money either ) It's your call - check with a retailer on returns - buy and try, the worst that's going to happen (I think - anyone else?) is that your system only sees 4Gbs.

FredM8 said:

..... I have been advised by a couple of people who think that as I am running a 64 bit system then the increased memory should work.

You could also check the mother board itself, printed between the PCI slots I think. If it says you're up-to-date, great.

FredM8 said:

MSI have a little Gizmo you can down load and install that tells you a bit about your/their motherboard. It seems that I have the latest BIOS for this board. I did try to get more details from other users of my computer model from a users forum.

Ok, let me catch up - reading your posts over there:

FredM8 said:

The link is here
Fujitsu Technology Solutions - Forum • View forum - AMILO Desktop P My posts are the two at the top. As you can see the Fujitsu forum for this model is a hotbed of activity with people falling all over themselves to provide advice,assistance, and solutions.

There is nothing at all on the card. I formated it and dedicated it to ReadyBoost form new, it's only a few days old ?
Autoplay Screen ? Please elaborate.

Whoops ! I had forgotten about that screen and it's ages since I used the print screen function too. But it's attached as a PDF now.

@FredM8: I saw the posts over at Fujitsu and that "Hey this guy might solve FredM8's problem" Of course now I know that that guy IS FredM8 - lol.

You might try the "Reset to Defaults" button on Control Panel autoplay, remove the SD and restart
Format you SD card after Windows is up, and restart with the SD in the slot and see what happens. I suspect your machine will boot normally - it's just a card in the slot. If you have the "hang" at this point, we'll have to chase it form another angle.

If the system restarts normally with the newly formatted (empty) SD in the slot (no autoplay or Readyboost defined), then tell Windows to use your SD card as a Readyboost device again and restart - what happens?

I normally don't use autoplay, especially for programs - I don't want some rogue program starting automatically. I'd rather have the "inconvenience" of launching anything on a device myself. I do mean anything, even media. That's just how I run my system, autoplay is nice but a threat on external media has an easy way in to your system. So, I set all items in autoplay to "Take no Action".

Thanks Fred, that might have been my last best guess. I'll think on it for a while, hopefully some other folks will drop by and suggest another plan of attack. It might just be something you have to live with or use a Flash drive for your Readyboost device (I'm not saying you won't have the same issue, but....)

I've subscribed to this thread, so I can follow any progress. I will also look a little deeper into the memory capacity 4Gb v. 8Gb but for now.... I'm stumped!

A question?

FredM8 said:

.....with no ill effect on startup or shutdown ?

Were the sticks defined as Readyboost devices? I think the USB sticks have better results with Readyboost in that they don't seem to cause any problems, as long as they pass the initial test when you set it up for a device.

I'm sure that using SD for Readyboost would make it easier since the card doesn't stick out as the flash drives do.

Thanks for the update.

thanks and I agree. You can still use the card w/ Readyboost, you just can't boot with it in the slot.... an inconvenience, yes.... it would be nice and it should work... but this is technology, there's no magic involved.