Plug & Play not functioning

Hello, I am having an infuriating problem with plug and play devices on my laptop.

Every time I plug in any device I get the "Found new hardware" wizard asking for drivers. The devices should not need drivers, but are never recognized by windows.

For instance, I have a compact flash card reader (ImageMate CF SDDR-91)
I can not get it to work no matter what I have tried. It is getting power, but doesn't show up in the drive list and requests a driver every time it is plugged in. I can not find the driver on the sandisk website, so I am just left with no ability to use the card reader.

Updating the driver in device manager doesn't work either, it shows up under "other devices" as "ImageMate CF" and has a yellow triangle with an exclamation point telling me "There is no driver installed".

I try updating driver software, and as I have no disc I tell it to search online for software. Here is a screenshot of the result.

http://postimage.org/image/nu511tywb/

If someone could help me get my head around this problem I would appreciate it immensely as I really need to be able to access my photographs.

I am running 32 bit Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition with SP1 on a Compaq Presario CQ70-211EM Notebook PC.

Thanks for any help given, this is driving me insane.
:cry

 

Hello plodr, Yes I just checked and it is set to automatic.

Thanks for the reply.

 

Any other ideas most welcome, this problem is still occurring.

:cry