[SOLVED] Kingston SD card not exactly working

**magnethead** · 11-07-2008, 10:05 PM

My friend got a new HD sony camera the other day, that records in AHVCD format or some wierd thing like that. Anywho, he's on XP SP3 and I'm on vista SP1...Simply put, the camera reads the disk fine. But either of our computers nor my canon camera even recognize a disk has been inserted to the media reader.

If he plugs the camera straight to the computer, he can view the files, and that's about it..anything else causes it to lock up, as like mine.

I noticed the SD card is a kingston..has their quality dropped that far, or is there somethign we need to change for our computers to read?

I put my camera's sandisk SD card in the reader and it works fine.

I'm also trying the reader on my XP machine, again, works on sandisk...not kingston.

**kodi** · 11-08-2008, 02:13 AM

Don't Sony have their own propriety system that uses a Memory stick and not SD. Looks very similar to secure digital card

**magnethead** · 11-08-2008, 08:46 AM

no, it's an sd card on his camera.

the camera reads and writes to the card fine..but data cant be collected from it by PC.

**magnethead** · 11-08-2008, 03:18 PM

his still uses CF, the video camera uses SD.

tried my sandisk card in it, works fine.

Kingston = phail.

I'm letting him borrow my 2GB SD for the week, i wont be taking any pics between now and the race next weekend.

**magnethead** · 11-08-2008, 07:27 PM

here's another question: Is there a way to tell if a card reader is high capacity? It donned on me after testing, that that might be the issue?

11-07-2008, 10:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
magnethead Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,568 OS: Vista ultimate 32bit My System Blog Entries: 3	[SOLVED] Kingston SD card not exactly working My friend got a new HD sony camera the other day, that records in AHVCD format or some wierd thing like that. Anywho, he's on XP SP3 and I'm on vista SP1...Simply put, the camera reads the disk fine. But either of our computers nor my canon camera even recognize a disk has been inserted to the media reader. If he plugs the camera straight to the computer, he can view the files, and that's about it..anything else causes it to lock up, as like mine. I noticed the SD card is a kingston..has their quality dropped that far, or is there somethign we need to change for our computers to read? I put my camera's sandisk SD card in the reader and it works fine. I'm also trying the reader on my XP machine, again, works on sandisk...not kingston. __________________ For proper support: what are you running? graphics, cpu, m/board, ram, PSU brand wattage PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W PSU. Power Supply Info and Selection . Info on thermal compounds & application . TEST PSU USING MULTI-METER . Bench Testing Your System Last edited by magnethead; 11-07-2008 at 10:24 PM.

11-08-2008, 02:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 7,375 OS: Windows 7-Ultimate 64 Bit My System	Re: Kingston SD card not exactly working Don't Sony have their own propriety system that uses a Memory stick and not SD. Looks very similar to secure digital card __________________ Brian

11-08-2008, 08:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
magnethead Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,568 OS: Vista ultimate 32bit My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: Kingston SD card not exactly working no, it's an sd card on his camera. the camera reads and writes to the card fine..but data cant be collected from it by PC. __________________ For proper support: what are you running? graphics, cpu, m/board, ram, PSU brand wattage PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W PSU. Power Supply Info and Selection . Info on thermal compounds & application . TEST PSU USING MULTI-METER . Bench Testing Your System

11-08-2008, 03:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
magnethead Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,568 OS: Vista ultimate 32bit My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: Kingston SD card not exactly working his still uses CF, the video camera uses SD. tried my sandisk card in it, works fine. Kingston = phail. I'm letting him borrow my 2GB SD for the week, i wont be taking any pics between now and the race next weekend. __________________ For proper support: what are you running? graphics, cpu, m/board, ram, PSU brand wattage PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W PSU. Power Supply Info and Selection . Info on thermal compounds & application . TEST PSU USING MULTI-METER . Bench Testing Your System

11-08-2008, 07:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
magnethead Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,568 OS: Vista ultimate 32bit My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: [SOLVED] Kingston SD card not exactly working here's another question: Is there a way to tell if a card reader is high capacity? It donned on me after testing, that that might be the issue? __________________ For proper support: what are you running? graphics, cpu, m/board, ram, PSU brand wattage PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W PSU. Power Supply Info and Selection . Info on thermal compounds & application . TEST PSU USING MULTI-METER . Bench Testing Your System