Trying to pick up Umax Astra 1220P on LPT3 . . .

[Mister Shed]

I don't want to run a scanner and printer off the same parallel port, so
I've installed an Extreme IO PCI peripheral controller card, which adds a
parallel and two serial ports. These are installed fine in Windows XP's
device manager,
which sees the parallel port as PCI ECP LPT3.

I've also downloaded the correct 1220P driver, and now the scanner has been
detected and is listed correctly as a 1220P in device manager. But I can't
get the Vistascan software to pick up the scanner at all - the scanner test
function draws a resounding blank. I was hoping that the Vistascan
installation would allow me to select LPT3, but even in the custom install
it doesn't seem to give the option.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Mr S

[Hu Ru]

What about trying your printer on new port and scanner on LPT1?
"Mister Shed" <***@nospam.com> wrote in message news:4020f35a$0$10053$***@news.dial.pipex.com...
I don't want to run a scanner and printer off the same parallel port, so
I've installed an Extreme IO PCI peripheral controller card, which adds a
parallel and two serial ports. These are installed fine in Windows XP's
device manager,
which sees the parallel port as PCI ECP LPT3.

I've also downloaded the correct 1220P driver, and now the scanner has been
detected and is listed correctly as a 1220P in device manager. But I can't
get the Vistascan software to pick up the scanner at all - the scanner test
function draws a resounding blank. I was hoping that the Vistascan
installation would allow me to select LPT3, but even in the custom install
it doesn't seem to give the option.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Mr S