Scan Man
2004-01-02 23:17:52 UTC
I've installed and re-installed and de-installed for hours and haven't
gotten this thing to work.
Specifics:
Scanner: Epson Perfection 1650 (photo I think). 2 years old?
OS: Windows 2000 pro. (SP4, fully updated/patched)
Computer: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard (flashed most recent bios)
USB: 8 usb ports (2.0 / 1.1) Intel chip-set
Twain driver: Tried several versions (5.0/5.5/5.71).
- At one point all usb devices were un-installed and their drivers
removed prior to Twain installation
- Twain was installed before scanner connected to USB port
- Twain was un-installed prior to each re-install attempt. Registry
was scanned for all occurrances of "Twain" and almost all of them
were deleted.
- Twain_32 directory (in c:\winnt I think) could not be removed
(message said it was in-use or shared, but I'll be damned if
I knew who or what was using it).
- When first connected, Windows sez "found new device - installing
1650 scanner - etc".
- After scanner discovery, hardware list shows the scanner under
imaging devices (or some-such catagory). No exclamation mark.
Properties says scanner is working properly.
- Epson control panel (or what-ever it's called) has 8 different
scanning options (scan-to-email, scan-to-file, etc). Each and
every one of them fails soon after selection. For example,
scan-to-file gives an error that goes something like another
program is currently using the scanner.
- I've read something about disabling ACPI but I dont' seem to
have that option on my motherboard bios setup, and it goes
on to say that disabling ACPI is something you can't do on
Win-2k (you have to re-install the OS - jeeze).
- Another app that comes on CD with the scanner (I think it was
some Adobe scanning program) also gives same sort of error.
- USB ports seem to work (Creative web-cam and Pro-9 smart-card
interface unit work fine).
- The scanner works when connected to a win-98 computer (epson
control panel software works, scanning app works fine, etc)
The problem must be the twain thing, or ACPI, or something wrong with
the "twain_32/twain32" directory. Also, yes I am logged onto the
machine as administrator (actually, on this machine I have disabled
logon requirement but I *think* I am still the admin user in this
case). Can someone help me out here? (please post any replies -
thanx)
gotten this thing to work.
Specifics:
Scanner: Epson Perfection 1650 (photo I think). 2 years old?
OS: Windows 2000 pro. (SP4, fully updated/patched)
Computer: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard (flashed most recent bios)
USB: 8 usb ports (2.0 / 1.1) Intel chip-set
Twain driver: Tried several versions (5.0/5.5/5.71).
- At one point all usb devices were un-installed and their drivers
removed prior to Twain installation
- Twain was installed before scanner connected to USB port
- Twain was un-installed prior to each re-install attempt. Registry
was scanned for all occurrances of "Twain" and almost all of them
were deleted.
- Twain_32 directory (in c:\winnt I think) could not be removed
(message said it was in-use or shared, but I'll be damned if
I knew who or what was using it).
- When first connected, Windows sez "found new device - installing
1650 scanner - etc".
- After scanner discovery, hardware list shows the scanner under
imaging devices (or some-such catagory). No exclamation mark.
Properties says scanner is working properly.
- Epson control panel (or what-ever it's called) has 8 different
scanning options (scan-to-email, scan-to-file, etc). Each and
every one of them fails soon after selection. For example,
scan-to-file gives an error that goes something like another
program is currently using the scanner.
- I've read something about disabling ACPI but I dont' seem to
have that option on my motherboard bios setup, and it goes
on to say that disabling ACPI is something you can't do on
Win-2k (you have to re-install the OS - jeeze).
- Another app that comes on CD with the scanner (I think it was
some Adobe scanning program) also gives same sort of error.
- USB ports seem to work (Creative web-cam and Pro-9 smart-card
interface unit work fine).
- The scanner works when connected to a win-98 computer (epson
control panel software works, scanning app works fine, etc)
The problem must be the twain thing, or ACPI, or something wrong with
the "twain_32/twain32" directory. Also, yes I am logged onto the
machine as administrator (actually, on this machine I have disabled
logon requirement but I *think* I am still the admin user in this
case). Can someone help me out here? (please post any replies -
thanx)