My Scanner is not working on WIN XP ?

Question

I have an old but faithful PC. Its configuration includes P-III 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD. My scanner is UMAX Astra 1220S for SCSI port. Everything worked perfectly OK on WIN 98. But last week I upgraded to WIN XP (S/P 2) so that I can install an USB port. But now XP dont detect my scanner. I could not find an upgraded driver on UMAX site. I found a suggestion on one site to upgrade the driver for SCSI port. I installed that file - DTC3181x.exe. But still XP don't detect the scanner. Did anyone meet with a similar situation ? Please suggest a solution.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

OMG !! Old faithful is the correct term :) You should have specified the SCSI card you are using :( 

.....Adaptec or what ??

I have an UMAX flatbed working perfectly on XP. It is a bugger sometimes to install. Go in the control panel to begin with and make sure that XP didn't install 5 drivers with exclamation marks.

This is the driver tracker that you need to run. Then you can select the proper updater from the list :)

Been there...done it :)

One thing, you will need to power on the scanner first and then boot the computer :)

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/78551

Enjoy

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