re: Canon N650U scanner Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 5:41 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (21647 messages posted) I would first try just un and reinstalling the scanner and drivers. The drivers may have gotten corrupted On Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 5:03 pm, Angela Lam wrote: >Hi my stupid scanner is suddenly acting up after having used it 4 yrs without any >trouble. I plugged the USB cable into my laptop computer and pressed the scanner's >little blue button as per usual to bring up the scangear toolbox but nothing happened! >the toolbox can open from Window's start menu but every time i click on the "scan" >button on the toolbox, a little dialog box came up and said "cannot communicate with >scanner. cable may be disconnected. check status. scanner driver will be closed". >a 2nd dialog box says "unable to open TWAIN source. please check connection. then >re-start toolbox". The cable IS NOT loose and the scanner doesn't need any external >power sources. i tried 2 scan with another computer and it worked perfectly fine- >so the scanner itself isn't dead. wots the problem?!? Written in response to: Canon N650U scanner (Angela Lam: Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 5:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: Canon N650U scanner (George: Friday, October 14, 2005 at 3:10 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Canon N650U scanner (Angela Lam: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 5:03 pm) re: Canon N650U scanner (Steve: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 5:41 pm) re: Canon N650U scanner (George: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 3:10 am) re: Canon N650U scanner (Kris: Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 9:22 pm) re: Canon N650U scanner (gewg_: Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 11:09 pm) re: Canon N650U scanner (George W Bush is a murderer: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 6:49 pm) re: Canon N650U scanner (Angela Lam: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 1:29 pm) Hummm..... (JmC: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 4:37 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum