🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
>
>