DV6-1245DX SD Reader Problems

Hey all, 1 year old DV6-1245DX with Win 7 64bit, since day one my SD reader has been VERY tempermental, it will at random say I have inserted a card when in fact its always been inserted or just refuses to recognize anything is inserted.  Well just now it quit completely and refuses to blink at all, windows says every thing is fine but I know its not, I have talked with HP before about this but they pretty much just gave me the finger and told me to you know what myself and refuse to warranty this problem (was brought to their attention while under warranty still so still in effect for this problem).  If this is how HP build their products this will be my first and last HP product I purchase, if the community can help me solve this issue I would be very happy  I have tried old drivers, new drivers, new cards, old cards all the same problem.  Thanks all!

card readers are prone to problems with the internal contacts, particularly multi-card readers. If you get a card inserted a little  bit wrong it can cause it to go out. HP should warrant the problem but if you can't get relief, the expresscard multi-readers are cheap and work well. My laptop has no built in card reader so that is what I use.

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