X220 - Card Reader Not Showing in Device Manager

[Rumi]

I've tried putting in an SDHC card in my laptop but it doesn't show up.  Looked at Device Manager and there isn't even anything showing up.  I tried installing the drivers provided on the support site but it still isn't working.  What can be done?

[Serge1410]

hey Rumi,

have you tried other SD cards ? could you try one that isn't SDHC and see if your unit detects it.

at the same time, head here :

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014960

and install/reinstall the software , see if this works for you

[raintonr]

Hi,

I have the same problem. Booted up in Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) and the card reader doesn't work.

Looked in the device manager as described in the link but there is no Ricoh PCIe Memory Stick Host Controller under  IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers category.

As described I did try and install the Ricoh card reader driver (v2.14.18.01) but didn't make any difference.

I know this isn't a hardware fault as booted up from a Linux live USB key and the card reader works just fine!

Any other clues?

[raintonr · Accepted solution]

Well, despite following instructions to download and install the driver manually I finally solved this by running the Thinkvantage Update.

This is not the program that is run by pressing the 'ThinkVantage' key, or windows update. It is a separate program.

Anyhow, after running that the driver was downloaded and the card reader now works.

[DFarmerTX]

The default driver package included in recovery and avalible for download for my X220 called "8ass82ww.exe" didn't work for my system.

I still had a "Base System Device" listed in device manager, even after running all Windows and Lenovo updates.

I ended up modifying the risdxc.inf to include the following:

[Ricoh]
%R5U822Desc%=R5U822_Inst,PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_E822
%R5U822Desc%=R5U822_Inst,PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_E822&SUBSYS_21DA17AA

[Ricoh.ntamd64]
%R5U822Desc%=R5U822_Inst.ntamd64,PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_E822
%R5U822Desc%=R5U822_Inst.ntamd64,PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_E822&SUBSYS_21DA17AA

This allowed the card to work fine.  I wonder if they've recently changed the multicard reader for this system?  It's a 4286-CTO.

[rain_maker]

Many thanks to DFarmerTx. Had same problem with card reader driver, fixed it using described method.

[paulrd]

I have tried all the above to try to solve this problem. Still my card reader does not work. I cannot find a working driver for this device. It does work under Ubuntu however. Any chance this will be resolved?

[paulrd]

This solution does not work for me.