A75 transferring images to computer

[ooni]

Okay, I am getting more than a little frusterated with this. This is just one of many problems I have been having.

Every time I hook up my A75 to my computer, and turn it on to move it to the show images part, it just turns off. When I take out the plug, it comes back on. I understand it takes more battery power to do this, and I got a reader because it was less expensive than the power cord that I could plug in to get electricity... but that is giving me issues with a certain card, and I want to know if it is the card or the reader, so I want to try to convert the images to the computer through my camera.

It wasn't working, but then I realized it was b/c I was using an 'extension cord' of sorts. I put it into another outlet, and it was fine, not turning off, only my stupid driver for that particular outlet doesn't have the proper things installed!!! I followed so many instructions to get that fixed and it still isn't.

And the camera turns off now when I used a different usb port. *tears hair out* I have work to do, but I can't do it because I don't want to risk losing my one good card on a reader that might be bad.

Help!!!!!

[Jon]

If by "outlet" you mean the USB ports, there's no harm in reloading the drivers. If you're running XP, you might try the built-in support for digital cameras instead of the Canon drivers if it wants something new.

Which version of Windows are you using, or are you using a Mac? USB hubs that don't have an external power supply can't handle as big a load as those that are powered externally.

If you're running Windows, you can find out how much power each device is using by going to the various USB Root Hubs that will be listed under USB Controllers in Device Manager. There's a tab called "Power" which will tell you what's plugged in and how much it's drawing, as well as the total power available to each port on that hub.

[UltraImAn]

simple solution : use card reader.