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Can't use old Acer flatbed scanner
I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old
Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? |
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Pimpom wrote:
I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? Maybe the driver is insistent it be on LPT1 ? The document here doesn't suggest it is necessary, but it's all I can think of. http://www.lavalink.com/dev/fileadmi...pci_manual.pdf Maybe the higher level software, doesn't like it if the hardware is moved to another parallel port ? Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Pimpom wrote: I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? Maybe the driver is insistent it be on LPT1 ? The document here doesn't suggest it is necessary, but it's all I can think of. http://www.lavalink.com/dev/fileadmi...pci_manual.pdf Maybe the higher level software, doesn't like it if the hardware is moved to another parallel port ? Thanks for the reply, Paul. Right now, I'm entertaining some guests. I'll follow up when I get the chance and report the results. |
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"Pimpom" wrote in message ... I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? I've found that with older hardware, Win2k drivers typically work in XP If you cannot find a win2k driver I'd not bother with the device |
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Can't use old Acer flatbed scanner
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:49:12 +0530, "Pimpom"
wrote: I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? If I remember correctly I had problems with an acer negative/film scanner. The solution was to use Mira software which succeeded but then on next use failed to recognise the scanner. Deleting software and re-installing overcame this, but only temporarily. I persevered as I wanted to do a batch of scans but after that decided it was too much hassle. km |
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On 25/06/2011 14:19, Pimpom wrote:
I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. By all accounts, this model never came with a driver for Windows XP. All searches for an XP driver pointed to the software MiraScan, with a few mentioning a separate inf file, namely EPP2K.inf. I downloaded both and tried it out with an old 32-bit Athlon XP machine that has a parallel port, running WinXP SP2. It worked, though it was a bit temperamental. Next, I connected it to my newer PC, also Win XP SP2, which has a new but untested PCI-Parallel port card. The card driver installed without a hitch and shows up as LPT3. When tested with a DMP, the port works flawlessly, but refuses to detect the scanner. Adding new hardware using the EPP2K.inf file makes it show in Device Manager as "Color FlatbedScanner". Properties show it as an EPPSCANNER connected to LPT3, but the status is always "Unavailable". To sum up: The scanner works with a computer that has an integrated parallel port. It doesn't work with a PCI-LPT card. The PCI-LPT card works with a DMP. Can anyone help please? Is there a way to change the mode of the pci-parallel port card? Standard parallel ports built-in to motherboards can usually be set to 'Output only', 'Bi-directional', 'EPP' and 'ECP' modes in the BIOS. For a scanner, 'output only' would fail to work and sometimes you have to try each of the other 3 modes before things start working. HTH, -- Rob |
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Can't use old Acer flatbed scanner
Pimpom wrote:
I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. Are you sure that it is parallel port? Or does it jst look like that? HP domestic scanners were actually SCSI on a D25 port, but they had their own plugin AT scsi card. AFAIK all proprietary. |
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Can't use old Acer flatbed scanner
"Joel" wrote in message ... terryc wrote: Pimpom wrote: I have a very occasional need for a scanner, so I dug up an old Acer ScanPrisa 640P parallel port model. Are you sure that it is parallel port? Or does it jst look like that? HP domestic scanners were actually SCSI on a D25 port, but they had their own plugin AT scsi card. AFAIK all proprietary. I agree with you that most if not all older generation scanners usually are SCSI scanner, and I have never heard of Parralell scanner. Maybe there's some SCSI emulation involved, I don't know. But, as I said in my opening post, it works with my older computer's parallel port. The mobo of that computer is a Biostar M7NCG 400 using an nVidia nForce2 chipset and, AFAIK, a standard parallel (LPT) port. |
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