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| Thread ID: 43721 | 2004-03-24 20:10:00 | My Scanner has died | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 224915 | 2004-03-24 20:10:00 | A couple of days ago files started disappearing from win xp.After some fancy juggling I got it working again. I scannned a couple of pages and then the same thing happened. Also every time I used the scanner my modem was unloaded and had to be set up again. My diagnosis: The scanner is stuffed. It is a HP 4200c. Must be about six years old. Given excellent service. Even though I had to spend two and a bit hours downloading drivers for it after I switched to XP. Would anyone who does a bit of scanning like to reccomend a good machine to replace it with. I want something that was made for XP. I mostly scan from books and other documents, generaly in black and white, so colour is not of major importance. Any suggestions? Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 224916 | 2004-03-24 21:00:00 | My wife and my son's godmother have both just got the model up from canoscan lide 20 (could be 30 or 50, I don't know). They both seem happy. It's hard to go wrong these days, they are cheap and easy to use. This one set's a default windows print and you can just hit the copy button and it acts like a copier. It's pretty good. Any HP one would do, too. Do you want a film negative holder? Some come with that. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 224917 | 2004-03-24 21:07:00 | Just curious Jack........ Why would you think your scanner (hardware) is affecting programs (software)? It is not impossible, and stranger things have happened, but I would uninstall the scanner software, disconnect the scanner and reboot to check that everything in XP is still ok, fix it if it is not. Then switch off, reconnect the scanner start up the computer again and reinstall the scanner software to see if it works OK again before I went out and bought a new one. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 224918 | 2004-03-24 21:30:00 | I would certainly go along with Billy. A faulty scanner destroying files hardly adds up, thats the sort of thing a worm/trojan/virus may do. Suggest thoroughly scan your system for nasties, check again for file problems, and then as Billy suggests remove the scanner and its software to see if the problem disappears. Do one thing at a time. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 224919 | 2004-03-24 21:36:00 | {cough} yes, I forgot to point that out. It is very unlikely that a scanner would do that. (forgot about that bit) robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 224920 | 2004-03-24 22:06:00 | I agree with the others that the scanner (hardware) would not make your files start disappearing. Run an up-to-date anti-virus as one of the latest viruses (Netsky) will delete graphics files if they are the kinds of files you are losing. If you still think the scanner is stuffed I would advise you to check out the software bundle that comes with them and make your choice from that, providing the scanner has the features that you want. You haven't said whether your book scans are graphics or text but unless you already have good OCR software you may find that some scanners come with better OCR software than others. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 224921 | 2004-03-25 01:10:00 | I would not have blamed the scanner if I had not thoroughly checked it all. I do a scan, then reboot. Windows reports missing *.dll. fix that up. All works well with windows. Try another ; missing dll. go through the process twice more with same results. Also after doing a scan my modem drivers are disconnected and have to be re-installed. Doesn't matter if modem is connected or not. I know this sounds Queer, but thats the way it is. I have removed scanner software and have had no problems since. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 224922 | 2004-03-25 06:15:00 | It's possible for a piece of hardware to seriously affect the OS or other software by causing incompatible DLLs to be loaded . But it's very unusual for gear to work for a while then start doing strange things to the system . HP have always been known for high technology test equipment, but I haven't heard of them making scanners using anti-particles so they act as anti-scanners ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 224923 | 2004-03-25 07:48:00 | > HP have always been known for high technology test equipment, but I haven't heard of them making scanners using anti-particles so they act as anti-scanners There is always a first time for everything. :p :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 224924 | 2004-03-25 08:39:00 | In my opinion - HP - Invent = HP - inventing new ways to make old **** look good.. umm yea, anyway - my windows XP once deleted half my control panel icons for no reason.... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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