re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP with the help of parallel port converted to usb Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:07 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Avly (1 messages posted) Dear Faiq, I have exactly the same problem. Did you solve it in the meantime? It would be wonderful if you could relate the solution to me. Avly On Friday, March 7, 2008 at 9:27 am, faiq wrote: >dear sir, >we have installed a windows xp sp2 in our pc and labtop but since the new pc came >we had to transfer the scanner with our pc but our pc does not contain a parallel >port outlet so we some how found a way to convert the parallel port outlet to a USB >outlet it worked but the internal software installed in the scanner does not pick >up with the computer although it picks up the USb device attached to scanner and >we also installed the necessary software for it but still the pc does not pick up >the scanner although it is fully connected. the model of our scanner is acer flatbed >scanner scan prisa 640P. can you tell me any way through which i can make the scanner >work with the usb. it worked perfectly with the labtop because it contained a pallel >port outlet. so pl help me i am really despirate to get the thing done. Written in response to: re: Making Acer Parallel port scanners work in Windows XP with the help of parallel port converted to usb (faiq: Friday, March 7, 2008 at 9:27 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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