[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Coolscan LS4000 not recognised

["Julie Cooke" <julie@lightdrawing.com>]

>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 05:51:58 -0700
>From: "RM Lane" <rmathuln@pacbell.net>
>----------------------------------------
>Is the Firewire port on the motherboard, or is it too a PCI >>card?
>If it is a PCI card, there could be IRQ conflicts between the modem and =
the
>Firewire card. If they are both PCI cards, try taking the >modem out and =
>see
>if it fixes the problem. If it does, try using different PCI >slots. =
>Also,
>try uninstalling the modem, restart the computer, then >reinstall the =
>modem
>while the LS4000 is connected and turned on. If you installed >the modem
>while the scanner was turned off, Windows PNP thought the IRQ >was free =
and
>used it for the modem. Having the scanner on when you >reinstall the =
modem
>
should prevent that.

This was a PCI conflict, I finally found a combination of slots where both
the modem and scanner work, phew. I'm now doing my backlog of scanning.
Thanks for your advice :-)

Julie
http://www.lightdrawing.com
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