Using 4GB SDHC Cards with the TI PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller based card readers

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Using 4GB SDHC Cards with the TI PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller based card readers

I recently bought a 4GB microSDHC card and had serious trouble reading the card using my laptop's built-in card reader under Windows Vista w/ SP1. The card reader had been able to read other cards of less capacity, including a 1GB card, just fine. Looking around on the web made it apparent that a LOT of people had the same issue when attempting to read cards above 2GB. It took a lot of reading through various forum posts on the subject before I finally got it working with the 4GB card.

The built-in card reader in my Acer Aspire 5673WLMi uses the Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller, which is a device found on a lot of laptops of various different models and brands. The latest driver version for the device currently issued by Acer, and most other manufacturers, is versioned 2.0.0.6. The two main solutions proposed on the forums is 1) an install/upgrade of the existing driver manually without using the installer software, and 2) registry hacks that supposedly fix the problem. Neither of these worked for me, though the forums postings indicate these "fixes" worked for many people.

I spent the better part of a day reading and checking various proposed fixes and, in the end, all it took was for the recent version 2.0.0.7B driver found on the HP Customer Care website to be installed...

Anyway, I thought I'd reiterate the solution in case it helps someone else...

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Jaheen says:

#1 2008-08-17 06:07 (Reply)

thanks a lot for this post, man. even i've had trouble reading the 4GB SDHC card I bought for my camera, in my laptop. its not easy using the camera data transfer cable everytime to transfer the pics.. been wondering why my laptop's built-in card reader doesnt read it at all. let me try this fix and give it a try.. will let you know if it works or not
cheers!
seth says:

#1.1 2010-01-22 04:10 (Reply)

Thanks a lot for this link...I know it's a year plus after the fact, but I (and many others out there, from the looks of things)have been having a lot of trouble with the sdhc. Just got a new camera and some spiffy new 8gb cards for my winxp acer aspire 5670. TI PCI xx12, etc. This driver works!! I lovew not having to carry a usb reader around. Spread the word. Thanks again.
eric says:

#2 2008-09-02 05:39 (Reply)

Hallo,

Greetings from the Netherlands.
I thank you very much for the link to the HP website.
Finally my 4 Gig SD card works on Vista in the TI card reader: Phoe!

Bye
Eric
jonny says:

#3 2008-10-08 14:28 (Reply)

your a star... easy as could be and now i can see 4gb SDHC card thanks a million
Okan says:

#4 2008-10-12 02:17 (Reply)

I spent the whole afternoon to get this son of a b.... to work. I read and read and read and then I finally put the right combination of keywords and got here.

I don't know what to say..... THANK YOU. Worked in one try.
Sander says:

#5 2008-12-10 18:11 (Reply)

Thanks for the tip. Works like a charm on my Acer 9410.
Funny that Acer doesn't provide the driver and HP does.
Didn't even require a reboot of my laptop.
Copilot19 says:

#6 2008-12-10 19:26 (Reply)

Greetings from Germany

Now SDHC Cards work fine on my LG P1

many thanks
phil says:

#7 2008-12-23 05:10 (Reply)

Thanks for the tip, it worked like a charm on my hp laptop.
Cesar says:

#8 2009-01-07 01:45 (Reply)

Great! it works for my Gateway Laptop

Thanks from Mexico
steve says:

#9 2009-01-17 09:46 (Reply)

excellent post. works perfectly on Acer Aspire 9303, vista home premium SP2beta.

i was trying to read an 8GB SDHC card but the 2.0.0.6 drivers wouldnt read it but the HP ones work nicely...

thank you
SCT says:

#10 2009-01-25 16:43 (Reply)

Works pefectly on my Gateway MT6839b laptop. Now i can read my 4GB SDHC without having to connect an external reader.
Thanks alot!!!
Skriff says:

#11 2009-02-05 01:32 (Reply)

Tried it out on my Gateway C-140X convertible tablet running Windows 7 Beta 1. Reads a Transcend 16GB SDHC Class 6 like a charm. Will try it on the XP Professional that's dual booted on this system as well. Thanks for the tip!

PS - for any of you who are wondering, the exact chip that's in this system is the TI PCI-7412. Available on the Gateway support page under "motherboard", click specifications.
Jeremiah says:

#11.1 2010-11-20 04:32 (Reply)

Skriff, thanks much for posting that you tried this successfully on your Gateway C-140X.

That gave me the confidence to try it on *my* Gateway C-140X. I simply clicked the driver download link at HP's site (link to HP's site in the original post) and selected Run, then followed the prompts to install the driver.

It took a little longer than I thought, and with more prompts and waiting than I thought it might. But I just let the installer do its thing, clicking when prompted, and it installed fine (ended with a successful install message).

Before installing this driver, my laptop was not recognizing my SanDisk 4 GB micro SDHC card at all. Now it recognizes it perfectly.

Thanks!
fruitbonbon says:

#12 2009-03-17 17:23 (Reply)

Thank you from Japan. This tip works for SDHC cards perfectly on my gateway tablet but there is one thing. The reader no longer works for my old 1GB SD card. Luckily I do have an old USB based card reader that still works for old 1GB SD card. The situation is still a little bit cumbersome but better than nothing. Thank you anyway.
Acer 9410-4933 says:

#13 2009-03-17 18:49 (Reply)

I have an Acer Aspire 9410-4933 (bought in the USA, running Vista). I couldn't get my SanDisk Extreme III 4GB SDHC card to be recognized using the driver that came installed with the system (version 2.0.0.6). I found a pointer to the following (yes, the URL says it's for Extensa 5220 and I am using Aspire 9410-4933) and installed that and now the SDHC card is working just fine.

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_5220/vista/Drivers/CardR_TI_v2_0_0_7.zip

(Posted by: budweiser Sep 4 2008, 09:32 AM through http://forum.vista-driver.org/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=6&t=285)
alva5006 says:

#13.1 2009-04-07 14:53 (Reply)

I have an ACER Travelmate notebook using the same flash media controller. I've installed the the driver from this link courtesy of 'Acer 9410-4933' and worked fine. Now I can view and read the files in my 8GB SDHC. Thanks guys for your comments.
oWk says:

#14 2009-04-12 08:21 (Reply)

You are best! Thanks! HP driver on my Acer TravelMate 4672 also works fine!
Neoc says:

#15 2009-04-20 16:21 (Reply)

Thanks and thanks! Toshiba saved. Such an easy solution was so difficult to reach to. Thanks for making the link available. Problem solved!
Jonathan Solichin says:

#16 2009-05-21 03:40 (Reply)

Thank you very much mate. Works like a charm! Cheers.
Stoo says:

#17 2009-05-27 21:07 (Reply)

thanks you are a genius. it worked a treat
Jon Wright says:

#18 2009-06-21 15:03 (Reply)

I've been wanting to fix this for sometime. I have an HP dv5000 and an 8GB micro SD that is not recognized. Downloaded the linked drivers from HP - the setup program says it's for Vista even though it contains XP drivers - and it installs without fuss but then the reader can't detect anything at all. So still looking for something for XP. The driver I just tried was 2.0.0.7B - the driver I have that works with anything up to 2GB is version 2.0.0.2 - I'd be interested in trying other version. Of course no problems whatsoever in Linux.
florit says:

#18.1 2011-01-18 20:28 (Reply)

did you find a linux firmware for this device?
Jon Wright says:

#19 2009-06-21 16:57 (Reply)

Success. I found a version 2.0.0.8 on versiontracker.com via techrepublic and that works - I can read my 8GB on WinXP.
Didier E. says:

#20 2009-06-30 22:01 (Reply)

Hi all, for your information I found version 2.0.0.8 on ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_5220/vista/Drivers_SP1/CardReader_TI_v2.0.0.8_Vistax64x32_GECRF006.zip

This works for XP without problem and I can read my SDHC cards as well as SD cards (version 2.0.0.7 read SDHC only on my ferrari 5005, SD were not readable)
DD Orlandi says:

#20.1 2009-07-29 03:30 (Reply)

THANK YOU DIDIER!!!! I can now read both formats. YAY
Acer Aspire 9300 series says:

#21 2009-08-22 16:41 (Reply)

SDhc under Vista with a TI 7412 FlashMedia-Controller in an Acer Aspire 93xx runs about 4 times better and much more stable with v2.0.0.9 then v2.0.0.8 Drivers
Steve says:

#22 2009-10-14 15:15 (Reply)

Worked great on my Gateway C140x...thanks!
MrT says:

#23 2009-11-14 07:03 (Reply)

Thanks a lot, v2.0.0.9 works perfectly with Travelmate 2480!
Daddy says:

#24 2009-12-13 10:34 (Reply)

Dude your my hero, I owe you a beer.

Note: it works on a 16 gb sdhc card. yeah
John says:

#25 2009-12-13 16:30 (Reply)

Thx man ! Works for me too.

Greets from Belgium
Eric says:

#26 2009-12-24 03:31 (Reply)

Just wanted to say thank you from Sydney for a quick and easy fix to my problem. I've tried numerous things which never seemed to have worked 100%.

Thanks again!
Anonymous says:

#27 2010-01-11 16:48 (Reply)

greetings from greece and many thanks at last my 8gb sdhc card was recognised.
Michael says:

#28 2010-01-26 12:25 (Reply)

Thank You. I spent hours looking til I found this.
611 says:

#29 2010-01-30 06:04 (Reply)

Thanks! Your solution works well on Acer Aspire 3680-series with SDHC cards of any size.

Greets from Russia!
Alex Diaz says:

#30 2010-02-22 04:34 (Reply)

Hey thanx alot it worked
Digital_Joshua says:

#31 2010-02-28 11:38 (Reply)

Thanks for this trick! Worked fine on Acer Aspire 9300.
robertoli says:

#32 2010-03-09 18:22 (Reply)

many many thanks for the link. it works on hp dv8000. now i will try it on my acer 5220 too. the driver from acer support is not working. so i will try it with this driver 2.0.0.7B.

Thanks man.
Phil Hallchurch says:

#33 2010-03-14 16:25 (Reply)

thanks very much
Marcos Henrique says:

#34 2010-03-23 12:41 (Reply)

Thank you from BRAZIL! It works w/ Acer Aspire 5670. Now I can read my 6GB Micro SDHC card! You are best than the Acer Support web page.
finlandia says:

#35 2010-04-29 12:58 (Reply)

thanks for posting this, works perfectly on Aspire 3680. did a full system re-install and was trying card reader with a 16Gb SDHC card and thought the card reader just wasn't working period : )
Joe Martin says:

#36 2010-06-12 18:58 (Reply)

Muchas gracias, ya estaba decepcionado porque pensaba que me habien vendido una memoria defectuosa y no sabia que las de este tipo dshc no las leen algunos lectores.
fue hasta que me puse a investigar en internet y me di cuenta que a muchos por falta de conocimiento nos habia dado este problema.
ya estaba a punto de comprar un lector externo para mi dshc, cuando de tanto buscar llegue a tu blog y descargue la actualización.
me funcionó perfectamente para acer traver mate 2480 y la memoria es una markvision de 4GB. :-) :-)
ND Reddy says:

#37 2010-07-13 10:33 (Reply)

Works great my dear. I have an HCL laptop and my SDHC (4gb) never worked. Now it works after the installation of this driver. Thanks a lot
val says:

#38 2010-08-15 02:22 (Reply)

Nice !!!thanksssss !!!!!!!!
working fine on Gateway laptop
madjoe says:

#39 2010-08-22 16:08 (Reply)

I have a laptop Acer 9300 with Texas Instruments built in card reader 6in1 and your post just made my day! I have lost my USB cable of my Canon camera and now I can see photos of my daughter on the screen of my laptop! Thank you so much!
yoyo says:

#40 2010-10-16 16:45 (Reply)

Thank you, blog owner, your solution solved the problem I was 4 years, my laptop is Lenovo E680A, now I can easily exchange smartphone with my photos!

Thanks again, good luck!
Chris says:

#41 2010-11-27 14:53 (Reply)

I can confirm the last fix from the first post also works on the Acer Aspire 9300 notebook. my built in card reader now reads SDHC cards. Thanks for the link!
PWR says:

#42 2010-11-28 17:11 (Reply)

It works on my SONY VGN-CR510E SDHC Card Reader! Thanks a lot!!!
Aspire 9300 Vista Home Premium says:

#43 2011-01-22 19:40 (Reply)

Thanks!
Works like a charm. I deinstalled the old 2.00.6w driver via the device manager and installed this driver. Now my 16 Gb SDHC card is read perfectly when previously I could only read 2 Gb SD cards. What a wonderful help!
Wally says:

#44 2011-01-24 07:59 (Reply)

Fixed work on HP 6325. Found your fix after loking for quite a qhile on many 'tech help' pages. All of them were useless except for this page. Many tanks for taking the time to post this fix.
Acer Travelmate says:

#45 2011-02-21 12:13 (Reply)

I bought an 8 gig SDHC card and my laptop didn't even see it!!!, I had more or less given up after reading various write ups, saying that I needed to use an external card reader, as it was not possible to update my laptop.... until I found your blog, I followed your instructions and it worked straight away, thanks so much.
Kevdog says:

#46 2011-03-27 19:07 (Reply)

Thanks for the link to the HP driver. Worked great on my Apsire 5670 to get the SDHC cards working!
fu says:

#47 2011-05-23 12:00 (Reply)

It worked on windows 7 in my aspire 3680.... You are the man !!
Anonymous says:

#48 2011-06-02 10:40 (Reply)

merci! your srticle saved my day!!!
Claudio Leonetti says:

#49 2011-07-09 18:02 (Reply)

Hi, you're a genius. The driver works fine and now I can go back to work. Thanx man
Gilou says:

#50 2011-09-25 14:27 (Reply)

Thanks a lot stranger of the internet
It worked fine for me on a aspire 9410 !
Have a nice day
Presario V2310 says:

#51 2012-02-14 04:52 (Reply)

The new driver works great on my Compaq Presario V2310 which has a TI PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller. I had almost given up on the card reader but it was just that all my cards were too big! Thanks for linking to the driver.
Dave B says:

#52 2012-03-09 23:10 (Reply)

Finally got my SD card reader to work on my ACER thanks to your HP link above.....
Thank you so much.
Fred says:

#53 2012-05-21 21:29 (Reply)

Wow, thanks mate, you saved me today
Luc says:

#54 2013-03-23 14:23 (Reply)

After all those years, I finally found the solution! Thanks man!

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