Easily Install Realtek Card Reader Drivers

Realtek Card Reader Driver or also known as Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader Driver (PCIE) is widely used on most current Notebook (other Card Reader vendor includes Jmicron, Texas Instrument and Broadcom). Realtek provide universal Installer which is compatible with Windows XP, Vista,7,8 and 8.1.

Download (Universal Installer and Latest Version)
Realtek Download Link : Download Link

Download (From Computers Manufacturer)
Hewlett Packard (Hp and Compaq) : Windows XP | Windows Vista/7  | Windows 8.1
Lenovo : Windows XP/7 | Windows 8/8.1

Supported Card Reader:
Realtek shows on their website that this driver support the following card reader chipset:
RTS5101
RTS5111
RTS5116
RTS5169

But if you look at the driver inf file (installer information that shows compatible devices), it also support the following Card Reader Chipset:
RTS5208
RTS5209 (RTS5208 Variant)
RTS5229
Realtek 5139

During the installation process, it will take a while because it will install several card reader components.  Note that older driver version do have limited capabilities on how much storage they can read. If you have Notebook which released during Windows XP you might notice that it would not recognize storage larger than 2Gb, so it is important to get the latest driver available.
If you have problems with your card reader driver installation do let me know in the comment section below.

Texas Instruments PCI-8x12/7x12/6x12 Drivers

This method will install Texas Instruments PCI-8x12/7x12/6x12 in Windows XP, Vista and 7. Normally Acer provide this drivers for Windows XP and Vista, it is hard t find windows 7 drivers version so for windows 7 you need to install it manually. For windows Xp and Vista just extract and run setup to install.

Drivers Download Link : ftp://193.194.129.152/notebook/extensa_5220/vista/Drivers/CardR_TI_v2_0_0_7.zip

Download and Extract the driver files.

Installation for Windows 7 :

1. Open device manager by go to start and type "DEVMGMT.MSC" and press enter.
2. You will see 2 devices will yellow exclamation mark, which is Mass Storage Controller and PCi to CARDBUS Bridge.
3. Right click on Mass Storage Controller and select update driver.

4. Select Browse my computer for driver software.

5. Click Browse and point to the driver folder we extracted earlier.

6. navigate to "CardR_TI_v2_0_0_7\CardR_TI_v2_0_0_7\Windows\tiinst" and select the Vista32 for windows 7 32-bit and Vista64 for Windows 7 64-bit.

 7. Click Next and proceed with the installation process.

Now to install the PCi to CARDBUS Bridge just simply open the driver folder and run setup to install.

Realtek RTS5138 Card Reader 6.0.6000.0072 Windows XP

Driver Type: Card Reader, Storage
Name : Realtek RTS5138 Card Reader
Version : 6.0.6000.0072
File size : 7MB
Operating System :
Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit

Download

Help Locating windows version 32-bit and 64-bit

Installation:
1. Download the drivers.
2. Run the drivers files until installation finish.
3. Restart After Installation.

Cardreader Ricoh 3.51.01

File name: Cardreader_Ricoh_3.51.01_XPx86
Version: RICOH R5C8xx Media Driver Ver3.51.01
Release : March.29.2007

DOWNLOAD LINK:
Download (direct)
Download (mirror)

COMPATIBILITY:
The drivers in this driver release are compatible with the following RICOH Controllers:

Model Number                             Supported Controller
------------ ------------
R5C81x/82x/84x/83x/851/853    Memorystick Host Controller
R5C81x/82x/84x/83x/851/853    xD-Picture Card Host Controller
R5C83x/843/853                          MMC  Host Controller

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows XP
Windows VISTA x86
Windows VISTA x64

Ricoh 5-in-1 Card Reader Driver For Window XP

 This Driver originally for Compaq model but may work with other model.
report back if there broken link or you have any problems with the drivers.

Ricoh 5-in-1 Card Reader Driver for Windows XP.
Download

ftp link:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38001-38500/sp38330.exe

file size: 2.98MB
File name: sp38330.exe

notes:
1. recomended use Win XP SP2
2. error read package mean incomplete download, you need to download the file again.

HP Compaq nx8220 SD cards driver problems solved

First make sure you already install the
Texas Instruments Media Card Driver:
2.0.0.7 A (sp35308)
Download

After install it only recognize up to 1GB only, so you need to do some work:
1. open run, type "regedit" and then find this line
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Co­ ntrolSet001\Services\tifm21\Parameters

Original Key Value: SDParam = 16 (Decimal)
New Key Value: SDParam = 1