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Where are you Ian? I could copy my manual and post it to you. I am in
Brisbane.

email me (remove NOSPAM)

Stew.

"Ian" <spam@spaminternet.com> wrote in message
news:vOMZ7.1149$Ym.154895@news1.cableinet.net...
> Cheers for the info - I now have my second hand Vista S6E working -
> everything seems fine except for the unknown device in device manager.
>
> By the way, Magicscan 4.3 works fine - 4.4/4.5 don't detect the scanner.
>
> Does anyone know where I could download the scanner user manual?  All the
> umax FTP sites only have the newer scanners listed...
>
> Ian
>
> "Stew Hunt" <NOSPAMshunt@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
> news:t7WY7.939$lt4.50938@ozemail.com.au...
> > Folks, Please excuse the cross post (this is the first and last time I
do
> > it), I am posting this in the hope that it may help some others that are
> > having problems with SCSI Scanners and Windows XP.
> >
> > I have Windows XP Pro and the UMAX Vista S6E, Polaroid Sprintscan 4000,
> with
> > the Advansys 3922 SCSI card.
> >
> > You must make sure you have installed the ASPI driver for the SCSI Card
> (as
> > XP does not include ASPI drivers). I used the Adaptec ones kindly posted
> by
> > another problem solver at -
ftp://ftp.computerroom.com/WinXP/ASPI/aspi.zip
> .
> > (Run the ASPI check utility first to confirm that ASPI is not yet
> installed
> > correctly, then install the ASPI drivers).
> >
> > I am using Magicscan 4.3 - http://www.umaxweb.de/ftp/ms_pc/ms43drv.exe ,
> > which works very well with the Vista S6E, and is much better than
> Vistascan.
> > I have not yet tried the latest version of Magicscan (4.4) at -
> > ftp://ftp.umax.co.uk/pc/umax/scanners/ms440/ms440pcall.zip (big file
> 27mb),
> > because if figure if it aint broke don't fix it . I also have the
Polaroid
> > Sprintscan 4000, as ID6 (Vistascan is ID4) on the same card, and this
> works
> > well with the latest Polacolor insight Pro Version 5.0 software -
> > http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/sprintscan/pci_50_i.exe (not
for
> > the SprintScan 35, 35ES, 35LE, 45, and 45i though).
> >
> > Windows XP was finding the Vista S6E device 8 times but was unable to
load
> > the driver, although after clicking cancel 8 times, the scanner worked
> > perfectly. (Scanner appeared 8 times in the device manager as an unknown
> > device), I have now managed to get XP to only find it once (although it
> > still reports one error), and the software still works fine (appears
only
> > once in the device manager as an unknown device). See Microsoft
> > Knowledgebase article Q311907 here for the fix to duplicated scanner
> > devices -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311907
> .
> >
> > PS. www.umax.co.uk is the best site for drivers for the Umax Scanners.
> >
> > If this solves anyones problems than my work is done.
> >
> > Happy Scanning
> >
> > Stew.
> >
> >
>
>