Comments on: Dell Inspiron 700m SD card problems

By: herzigma

herzigma — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:58:31 +0000

HFrey – the driver is still available here: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R139212&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_700M&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7271&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=3&formatcnt=1&libid=27&fileid=186169

Install it and your 700m will work with larger SD cards (but not SDHC).

By: Hfrey

Hfrey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:58:27 +0000

I see everyone saying thank you for the fix… but I see no place/link to fix this problem. I had to reformat my 700m. EVERYTHING is great (but the SD does not work. I LOVE my 700m worked for sooo many years. it has been great….

would like to know where to go. Tried the link on aug. 28, 2008….

help ? please…

By: herzigma

herzigma — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:15:54 +0000

Keith – cards larger than 2GB are SDHC – a different and newer standard than SD. You would need a new hardware card reader in your Dell for it to work with the newer and larger cards.

By: keith

keith — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:19:49 +0000

When is Dell going to wake up and fix the above 2GB problem!!!!

By: anu

anu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:48:00 +0000

thnx Joshua for pointing to the new driver… my dell now recognises the 2 MB SD card!

By: Iris

Iris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:58:02 +0000

Installing the driver fixed the problem and my 700m can recognize a 2GB SD card, however, when I try to access the contents of the SD card I get an error message to format the card but formatting always fails! How can I make it read the card?

By: paul

paul — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:54:44 +0000

i have been wondering about this for a while now and you solved it. thanks a ton!

By: JHM

JHM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:35:48 +0000

I believe that most (all?) cards above 2GB are SDHC. SDHC cards look just like SD cards, SDHC readers can read SD cards, but SDHC cards can’t be read in SD readers. We have the same problem with our 4 year old 700M.

By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:56:21 +0000

I did the update as onboard sd card reader stopped working out of the blue. Thanks for making the Dell download link easy to find with Google. Now my 2G Transcend card works again, but my new 16G Transcend card does not work. The 16 does work with an USB SD card adapter so it is the Dell (TI brand) card reader that is the problem. Does the Dell TI brand onboard in a 4yo 700m simply not work with cards above 2G? I thought I had it working before, but maybe not.

By: JHM

JHM — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:37:12 +0000

I think that to read SDHC cards, you would need to replace the hardware reader. Sorry.