lexar usb 3.0 card reader !

hi, for some reason my lexar card reader just stop working today! must i update the driver on the lexar sight! it was working fine the other day to upload my photos,now the sucker just quit on me,i tried using my other usb ports and nothing" this lexar 3.0 double card reader is only a year old and now the little blue led will not come on as to indicate that its working! any HELP out there,thanks guys.

Tried rebooting the computer?
Tried a different USB cable?
Windows computer? Is it being recognized (and how) in Device Manager?

hi jon,the first thing i tried was to reboot the PC. 2nd thing i did was to swap out the cable,funny thing about this is i can upload photos from camera to the PC.witch makes me think its the card reader is DOA!i'll keep trying the settings in win.i did change the operating system to win.10 about two weeks ago,maybe this has something to do with it!

Are you directly connecting the card reader to a USB port or going through a USB hub? I have seen erratic behavior when going thorough a hub. Often times the behavior can be corrected by use of a power supply with the hub.

connecting card reader strait to PC.no hub.

blanex1 wrote in post #17776369
hi, for some reason my lexar card reader just stop working today! must i update the driver on the lexar sight! (

If you are asking about updating the driver, then "yes" this is always a good first step with peripherals that aren't behaving properly. There have been some instances reported here where the Lexar 3.0 card reader (with an old driver) has corrupted card certain UDMA compatible cards. Getting the proper driver and formatting the card has fixed the issue.

Most Lexar drivers can be found at http://www.lexar.com/s​upport/downloads.

Lexar doesn't seem to support Windows 10. I hope they are working on a driver.

rwmson wrote in post #17778420
Lexar doesn't seem to support Windows 10. I hope they are working on a driver.

If I was the OP I would go to the Lexar site and open a chat session to learn about my options. Depending on the response I might then do the Lexar firmware update on a PC running an appropriate o/s, like Windows 7. Then, after making sure my Windows 10 machine has the latest Windows USB driver I would retest the card reader.

Sometimes firmware updates are different than drivers.

hi,guys,i opened a live chat with lexar today, i was told i may have to do the firmware update from another non win 10 system,and it seems its a older update and my card reader #LRW300 was released with out it! let you all know how it works out for me,thanks guys.

blanex1 wrote in post #17778994
hi,guys,i opened a live chat with lexar today, i was told i may have to do the firmware update from another non win 10 system,and it seems its a older update and my card reader #LRW300 was released with out it! let you all know how it works out for me,thanks guys.

tried this,installed a driver fix program called DRIVER TALENT, and it did the trick,wow,it installed the new driver for my lexar CR.amazing! as win.10 wouldn't let me manually install this diver myself,i think some of these driver programs really do work!but use caution when downloading any program!

John from PA wrote in post #17778455
Sometimes firmware updates are different than drivers.

Firmware is the software that runs on, or perhaps a better choice is in the device. A driver is the software that tells your operating system how to communicate with the device.

Not all peripherals have firmware but if they do they have some level of intelligence.

I have used Driver Talent on some buggy system just to get things going. It can be found at http://www.drivethelif​e.com …ers-download-utility.html and is free until the end of the year.

Gotta say that yet another thread where Lexar support's solution is firmware updates to keep running is one reason I won't buy their products. This goes back more than 10 years when they had some "extensions" to the CF standard that supposedly made their cards faster (if the camera maker had licensed the extensions from them; Nikon did, Canon didn't), but left them non-functional in Canon's cameras. Canon released a firmware to accommodate Lexar's flawed extension.