Thinkpad X230/I7 bluescreens upon SD card insertion (winXP)

[peter-h]

I have tried 16GB, 8GB, 4GB and even an old 256MB.

There is a pause of 2-3 secs while windows XP realises the card has been inserted, and then it bluescreens. The error happens too fast to read; the computer reboots right away.

I have installed both of the Ricoh and Realtek media card drivers from here
http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/researc ... D=HT073834

as I have no way of telling which adapter I actually have (nothing evident in the Control Panel / devices list).

Currently I have the Ricoh driver as the latest one.

[ZaZ]

I had the same thing happen on my X220i. Eventually, the reader failed and does not work at all. If you've got warranty, I'd suggest calling support.

[peter-h]

This is ex Ebay

I have ordered a PCMCIA adaptor for SD cards, made by "Lindy". About £30. Life is too short.

I did the BIOS update too, BTW.

Everything else on the laptop works great (winXP) so I am happy

[peter-h]

Following help from someone here I tried another driver, from here
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... D=DS028931

Notice the above page says "13 Aug 2012".

The installer says the right version
http://i.imgur.com/JL3x8fo.png

But the files actually installed are the old 2011 ones
http://i.imgur.com/Soh0Qhu.png
http://i.imgur.com/O4Uj3em.png

So somebody at Lenovo has screwed up, and packaged old driver files under the "updated" installer.

I definitely have the Ricoh SD reader - one can see it listed under CP/Devices under PCI16 or PCI17.

[peter-h]

and now, google turns up this
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-a ... -p/1015457

Funny how somebody else has been up the same path, found the same wrong driver in the package. I might try his solution if I get a bit of time.