SD Card Reader on Windows Vista RC1

Author's note by chiefie, on 27-Sep-2006 11:18

Oh! Last night when I did an installation for Vista Pre-RTM build 5728, I discovered that SoftPaq does not want to install as it complained it cannot find the OS Version. A workaround is to use manual driver update, and point to the folder where SoftPaq has extracted the content to (you do know where that is located, right?)

So once again, good luck and enjoy.

p/s: 5728 is speedy! But for some reason, it causes my poor x1030AP not to hibernate properly. Haven't tried sleep mode.

Author's note by chiefie, on 27-Sep-2006 11:25

Oh!

A bit of correction to my blog post.

It appears that when installing the old Windows XP ATi driver into Vista, we are actually installing "Kernel Mode" driver. The new "User Mode" driver will only be available if ATi continues to develop driver for older graphic chipsets. The new "User Mode" graphics driver is also known as Longhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM), which is renamed to Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM). Sorry for the confusion in the above post. To understand better, have a read at [Vista graphics drivers to be more stable than XP drivers, ATI says] which is dated to 22 Septembr 2005.

Author's note by chiefie, on 25-Nov-2006 13:12

Awesome Juerg! Glad to hear you got it installed fine, but isn't it a bit weird that it only formats to 950MB?! Is it format using FAT32? Another worthwhile experiment is to use a Flash format application. I used one for my Flash drive, however I did not try on SD card as I don't have any Flash drive/device over 512MB.

Good Luck!

Author's note by chiefie, on 6-Dec-2006 16:50

you can get a SD-USB reader from FlashCards.co.nz which can act as an USB flash drive.