SD card only goes halfway in and is not recognized by my laptop.?

Question

My laptop is an Inspiron 3000. SD cards used to go in easily but not anymore. Used a flashlight to make sure there's nothing stuck in the slot and have tried 4 SD adapters and none of them will go in now. (I tried adapters because regular SD cards won't go in either. And my laptop doesn't have a slot for micro-SD cards so I know that's not the problem. Please help.

Answer 1

the card reader may be broken.  technician needed

Answer 2

there is a problem with the card reader slot, maybe a bent pin or loose spring. The simplest fix is to buy a cheap USB card reader adapter such as this

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Reader-RS-MM...