re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE Monday, January 13, 2003 at 9:39 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (21 messages posted) Wiring configuration is [PrinterPort to Scanner to Printer] ?? wasn't aware you could do that without a switch ... but if you say so..could and most probally is a bad cable if your printer is working and the scanner isn't try changing the cables and see what that does.. On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 7:54 pm, Niistoo wrote: >I have a Dexxa 4800 scanner and am running XP Home Edition. After running the install >software I reboot, yet there is no recognition of the scanner at startup or at any >time afterward. Error messages are absent. Device Manager does not indicate any >problems and does not show the scanner at all. Wiring configuration is [PrinterPort >to Scanner to Printer]. BIOS parameters for LPT1 are set to "Auto". I tried setting >LPT1 to "ECP/EPP" without success before returning it to the "Auto" setting. I've >tried using the "Add/Remove Hardware" wizard in Control Panel, but it does not detect >the scanner. The scanner was working fine until one day XP just decided to "forget" >the scanner. Any suggestions?.. Written in response to: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Niistoo: Monday, January 13, 2003 at 7:54 pm) Responses to this message: re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Hagens: Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 12:47 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Skuller: Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 10:23 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Niistoo: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 7:54 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Steve: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 9:39 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Hagens: Wed, Apr 9, 2003, 12:47 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Skuller: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 10:23 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Tom Swanson: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 10:29 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Bob Harris: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 7:17 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Niistoo: Wed, Jan 15, 2003, 7:35 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Rod Garnes: Sat, Apr 26, 2003, 9:57 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Gerald K Madonia: Thu, May 18, 2006, 8:31 pm) re Scanner driver disappears after installing windows xp (middleton: Thu, May 8, 2003, 3:21 am) re: re Scanner driver disappears after installing windows xp (Argh: Wed, May 28, 2003, 8:28 am) Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP (Dale Wright: Tue, Nov 18, 2003, 12:52 pm) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP (Roger: Fri, Apr 30, 2004, 6:06 am) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP with the help of parallel port converted to usb (faiq: Fri, Mar 7, 2008, 9:27 am) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP with the help of parallel port converted to usb (Avly: Wed, Jul 16, 2008, 12:07 pm) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP (Kita: Mon, May 17, 2004, 2:08 am) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP (David Hoover: Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 9:30 pm) re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP (Tony: Fri, Nov 26, 2004, 5:41 pm) re: re Scanner driver disappears after installing windows xp (CHRISTINE: Mon, Apr 25, 2005, 4:41 am) re: re Scanner driver disappears after installing windows xp (frances: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 11:05 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Theo Hofman: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 12:46 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Sali: Mon, Apr 12, 2004, 4:30 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Annuska Joosten: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 5:01 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Vicki Tuttle: Wed, Jan 21, 2004, 9:29 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Andy: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 4:09 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (Prateek: Fri, Oct 8, 2004, 1:21 pm) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (mrpaara: Thu, Sep 22, 2005, 6:42 am) re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE (FireWorks: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 7:53 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 XP Discussion Forum