X 60RSA
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Hi chaps!
The other day i bought an SD card off e bay, 4gb one which i plugged into my desktop SD card slot to try and transfer some pics over to. The PC never recognised the card, i tried removing and putting back in and it never registered it was there.
I tried a 1gb SD card from my dads camera (the 4gig was going to replace it) it recognised on the pc and worked fine. When i went to safely remove this via the icon, i had quite a long list of registered cards, which might have been from the 4gb card that on the screen never came up as plugged in, nor via ''my computer'' section.
Anyway, since then the pc has ran crap, tried reinstalling windows twice via deleting partition, full clean install and still the same!
The windows XP screen comes up with the blue loading bar which then goes to a black screen for around 3mins until the users log on section pops up. I then go to click for me to log on, and this take ages!
I've reinstalled with the internet disconnected, so no chance of a virus.
So now i'm pretty much lost as to what caused or is causing it to run w**k!
Any help appreciated!
[Edited on 10-02-2009 by X 60RSA]
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dannymccann
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Did you format it in NTFS or FAT32 file system? Thats pretty much the only thing I can think of.
Have you also unplugged everything that is unnecessary, like webcams, soundcards etc? Just leave the basics plugged in like GFX / mouse / keyboard etc, might be trying to find drivers for everything at once 
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X 60RSA
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I never formatted it, didnt know how as it would register on the pc.
I did have the printer plugged in but thats it.
I'll give it 1 more try without that plugged in and take it from there.
Read something about some devices not recognising 4gb sd cards as it works on sdhc or something!?
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X 60RSA
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Got confused, i formatted the pc in ntfs mode, not the quick one.
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dannymccann
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Not sure tbh, i dont have anything that uses 4gb sd cards, max I have is 1GB.
When you deleted the partition it normally asks you if you want to quick format or full format, just do a quick one but make sure its in NTFS.
Caution - Formatting obviously loses all your files
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X 60RSA
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yeah i backed everything up the other day once it was running slow, just whacked it all on the external drive.
I'll try the quick ntfs method tomorrow then. thanks
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dannymccann
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Ah if youve already done that format, especially the full one, maybe that wont solve your issue.
Have you ran a MEMTEST86 from a CD? Checks your memory for faults, if youve got a stick faulty that would seriously slow stuff down
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Ah if youve already done that format, especially the full one, maybe that wont solve your issue.
Have you ran a MEMTEST86 from a CD? Checks your memory for faults, if youve got a stick faulty that would seriously slow stuff down
I had this problem, turned out to be corrupt RAM, memtest found it though.
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