re: Scanner driver disappears after installing in XP HE Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 7:17 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bob Harris (992 messages posted) First, have you verified with the scanner manufacturer that this model is supposed to work with XP? Not all hardware is usable under XP. Next, I have had bad luck trying to put more than one device on a parallel port, without a switch box. Yes, I have seen hardware that "claims" to let you "pass through", but these are not always reliable. Try connecting only the scanner to the parallel port and see if that helps. 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 (Niistoo: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:35 pm) 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