OT -- DiMage Scanner with Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread P.J. Alling
Well it's kind of OT but not really. A friend of mine is trying to get his DiMage (I believe it's a Scan Multi), working with WinXP. It was last used with a Windows 98 box, and has been in storage for the last few years. I tried to diagnose his problems on the phone, but that didn't work out

Re: OT -- DiMage Scanner with Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread Mark Roberts
P.J. Alling wrote: Well it's kind of OT but not really. A friend of mine is trying to get his DiMage (I believe it's a Scan Multi), working with WinXP. It was last used with a Windows 98 box, and has been in storage for the last few years. I tried to diagnose his problems on the phone, but

Re: OT -- DiMage Scanner with Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread steve harley
on 2013-08-11 15:26 P.J. Alling wrote Well it's kind of OT but not really. A friend of mine is trying to get his DiMage (I believe it's a Scan Multi), working with WinXP. [...] I suggested that he download Hamrick VueScan, which caused a bluescreen when first started, and after rebooting it

Re: OT -- DiMage Scanner with Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread Mark C
Its been a while but I used a Canon Canonscan FS4000 on an XP box running through a SCSI port. The Adaptec AHA940AU card in the XP machine displays a dialog box when the machine boots - before XP loads. You see the BIOS and then Adaptec message (with the right key strokes you can go in and