re: old scanner on old 98 pc stopped working
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 9:34 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cheryl pocino
(3 messages posted)
thanks for your help and suggestions. we are currently following the path of replacing
the power converter for the scanner as we have had it tested this morning and it's
not providing the power output the device needs.....not sure if we can find a replacement
but are currently looking...
thanks again
On Friday, August 14, 2009 at 8:59 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>cheryl pocino wrote:
>|[...]after using it without issue yesterday[...]
>|the error message says that it can't find the scanner[...]
>|I believe the drivers are still in place
>|
>Look for yellow marks in Device Manager.
>When in doubt, Remove the old device driver and reinstall the driver.
>(Things *can* get corrupted without raising a flag.)
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>|but not sure if its the driver or if the scanner simply gave out due age.
>|
>The best way to test hardware
>is with an OS that has an excellent ability to discover and configure devices
>(without having to manually mess with drivers).
>If you DON'T have to *install* that OS to use it, that's **really** good.
>(Just boot to the CD containing it.)
>This one is legendary:
>http://google.com/search?q=Knoppix+Linux
>
>The fine print:
>It's a ~700MB download.
>You then need to tell your burning software
>to make the downloaded *.ISO file into a (bootable) CD-R.
>
>Warning:
>You may fall in love with Linux and never go back to your 11 year old M$ OS.
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