- Stupid User Tricks: How did a memory card get stuck in the laptop?
- Posted by Al Dykes on April 9th, 2007
I was asked to look at a modern HP laptop. It has a slot for memory
cards. The owner swears it's 5-in-1 and that he's done this before.
The user tried to put the card from his cell phone into it and somehow
the card sungk down half an inch below reach. He wanted help removing
it.
How did he do that?
It looks like the thinnest form factor card. I told him to take it to
an authorzed HP dealer and pay a few bucks if necessary. I'm not going
to disassemble an otherwise nice laptop.
There was no eject button or paperclip hole.
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- Posted by Bert Hyman on April 9th, 2007
In news:eve1ld$hpe$1@panix5.panix.com adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:
A "card from a cellphone" sounds like a microSD card; maybe he forgot to
put it in the adapter to make it fit a full-sized SD slot.
On the other hand, I can easily imagine losing even a full-sized SD card
in a CompactFlash slot.
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- Posted by Barry Watzman on April 9th, 2007
Most cell phones use a "mini-SD" card (once called transflash .... the
same thing) that while electrically identical to SD cards is
mechanically smaller. I have not seen ANY card readers that natively
take mini-SD cards. There are adapters that you put the mini-SD card
into, and then the adapter (mini-SD card and all) goes into a card
reader (the adapter is the same size as an SD card). My guess is that
he put in the mini-SD card without an adapter.
Al Dykes wrote:
- Posted by paulmd@efn.org on April 9th, 2007
On Apr 9, 11:46 am, ady...@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:
Easy, keep shoving. Ive seen 2 dimes and a nickle inside a slot-load
cd drive, and alcohol pads shoved inside a floppy drive.
I might try very fine needlenose pliers.
- Posted by Quaoar on April 10th, 2007
Al Dykes wrote:
The mini- or micro- SD card without the adapter that comes with these
cards was inserted. It might be removable with a dental probe to get it
back into the entry slot.
Way back in the beginning of time, 1984, a guy I worked with designed a
program in Macintosh Basic for time card data entry. He labeled the data
floppy as "Card".
Debugging the program, his own programmed dialog "please insert Card in
the floppy drive" came up, and so he inserted his access/ID card into
the floppy drive, destroying it. It was late at night.
Stuff happens.
Q
- Posted by crazyal on April 11th, 2007
i once got a sim card from my mobile phone stuck in a usb card reader
i had to crack it open to get it out!!!
- Posted by Ian Singer on April 11th, 2007
crazyal wrote:
tape on it with the hope the card would stick to the cardboard?
Ian Singer
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