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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.