Larry
Here is my experience with this:
Bill
Thanks to the many Filmscanners who helped solve my problem(SS 4000 not
recognized in Win 2K). Conclusion was.
1. Install new drivers for the AdvanSys ABP-3922-00 SCSI card from
. Connect.com is the new
name for the AdvanSys site. This installed a driver called Fast Ultra Narrow
SCSI, which then showed up properly in Device Manager. Win 2K itself had a
driver for the AdvanSys card which loaded automatically on setup, but it was
out-dated.
2. Install new NTASPI32 with the installer from
. A trick here was that the
Adaptec installer did not work(gave a message that there was no Adaptec card
on my system). The Polaroid Support staff and some others advised me to use
the Adaptec site, but that would never work for me. Also, the AdvanSys CD
that originally came with my SS4000(December 1999) had outdated drivers.
In this AdvanSys site, there was a choice of a GUI installer or a simple
system where you just copy the NTASPI and WNASPI files to two different WIN
NT folders. I used the GUI and it was all automatic.
3. Now I had the right drivers and ASPI layer, but the scanner was still not
recognized. I had to physically remove the AdvanSys card and reboot with the
card out of the system(no longer showed up in the Device Manager). Then I
shut down, put the AdvanSys card back in, and started up again. Voila! Works
pefectly so far with the SS4000 using either Vuescan or PolaColor Insight.
I still have a problem with Win2K system freezes when using Windows
Explorer, and my USRobotics modem is not working. But all applications like
Photoshop 6 and ThumbsPlus are working better than they did on Win 98 or Me.
Dual Boot with Win Me working fine. I'll solve the other problems, but I
couldn't have solved the ASPI problem without your help.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Larry Berman
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 5:42 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: SCSI card not recognized by Win2K
Yes, of course I tried other slots. The card didn't show up in the device
manager.
I also tried downloading the ASPI utility from Adaptec but it wouldn't
install because I didn't have an Adaptec card on the system.
The card was not in the device manager, but the scanner was after
installing Insight but nothing I would do, short of scanning from the older
computer. would work.
I'm tired of troubleshooting back and forth between computers running
different operating systems.
If anyone has a logical suggestion that a will make a $79 purchase
unnecessary I'll evaluate it. Even if I get it working, I still need a card
for the other computer so I might as well get one that's actually Win2K
ready.
Larry
BTW, it's PCI. ISA is to old for Win2K.
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