realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10

#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 update
#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 driver
#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 pro

Removing and reinserting it or restarting Windows would recover the card. The microSD card disappears from Windows. I think the standard scenario was like mine. Most just talk about 'Surface' and 'eject' 'unmount' 'disconnect' 'dismount' 'losing' 'disappearing' the microSD card.

#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 driver

Which driver should I use now? I think I need to know what's new in the new RealTek driver.Ī few of the threads, like the URL in my initial post, mention RealTek. So until today, the choice was a no-brainer.īut something happened today.

#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 pro

Which driver should I use.? The only two things I'm sure of at this point are (1) that the old RealTek Card Reader driver that I replaced a few months ago was associated with unwanted drive disconnects (ejects, unmounts)Ī few times a week costing me hours of wasted time and affecting at least dozens of other users through a variety of Surface Pro generations going back at least a couple of years and (2) the USB Mass Storage Device driver has not caused an unwanted disconnect

#Realtek card reader device drivers for windows 10 update

Before the update the driver I had installed - the one that worked reliably - was the USB Mass Storage Device driver. I suspect it's a new driver, but that's just a guess. I don't know if the RealTek driver shown is new or old. Only two drivers, a RealTek driver and a generic Windows driver. The screen below looks exactly like it did before the update. But now when I check (just a few hours later and with no obvious reason for the change) I see only two. What I feel sure of is that when I checked the available updateĭrivers on my computer, there were three alternatives. I don't recall exactly what led me to believe there was an updated RealTek USB 3.0 Card Reader driver. Please provide a little more help.Īs you can see from the attached update history, Windows updated the RealTek driver today.Īfter the update, which required an Windows restart, I went to Device Manager to check. So in summary, What's new in the Ver 3.0 RealTek card reader driver? To switch back to the known-safe mass storage device driver without ever knowing if the new version would have been better. If I can get some assurance that the new RealTek card reader driver solved the disconnect problem and that it has some meaningful advantage over the generic mass storage device driver, then I'll leave it in place and hope for the best. It can take hours for the Surface to rebuild corrupted databases. And the inconvenience of a failure is not trivial. Take weeks for me to be certain that the new driver was safe to rely on. I would typically get two or three failures per week but would often go two or three weeks without a failure. So if the specialized RealTek driver saves energy, then I want toįurther complicating my dilemma is that the failures of the old RealTek card reader driver were not simple to diagnose. On the other hand, the Microsoft Surface folks left the RealTek VersionĢ.0 card reader driver for years even though it clearly did not work in the Surfaces for any application that needed reliable access to a microSD card. I assume Microsoft would not distribute the specialized RealTek driver for the RealTek card reader unless it had some advantage over Microsoft's generic mass storage device driver. So I am faced with a difficult choice between reverting back to the known safe mass storage device driver and taking a chance on the new RealTek ver. Now Windows Update has replaced the mass storage driver with a new version of the RealTek driver. I switched to mass storage driver a few months ago and can assure people with the same problem that it solves the problem. The unwanted storage drive disconnect problem was easily 'solved' by replacing RealTek driver with the Windows USB Mass Storage Device driver (see forĭetails). Who were using the cards as mass storage for critical files, this was a crippling defect that could cost hours each time it occurred. Windows would spontaneously disconnect (eject, dismount, etc) a microSD card. I and many other users on this community had persistent problems with the card reader in several successive generations of Surface Pro (including my 4 and 6). Unwanted disconnects (ejects, dismounts) of a storage device.

In particular I need to know if the update addressed the issue of I'm not interested in obvious generalities. Can anyone shed light on what's in the new version.

Today (7/7/20), Windows updated the RealTek USB Card Reader driver from version 2.0 to 3.0.