It feels really nostalgic coming back to the list after 8 years or so. I am glad it is still there! (Thanks Tony!)
Last week I wanted to test if the old PCI application still works with XP SP3 (my old vuescan version certainly did not like SP3, and Ed has changed the licencing scheme and upgrades are not for free anymore, either!). When I turned on the SS4000, I expected the usual noises. While both the green and yellow light were on constantly (the yellow did not even START blinking), absolutely no noise emerged, I don't think the scanner even attempted to position anything. There was no film or slide holder in the scanner, the lights were on inside, it did not look as if there was dust dancing in the light. The scanner had been sitting under a dust cover wrapped around it (a plastic garbage bag). The SCSI card works perfectly (with another SCSI scanner plugged into the same outside plug at the back of the computer). Turning the scanner off and on sometimes leads to the yellow light blinking twice, then remaining steadily on again. No positioning is done - the 'movement noise' is completely missing! I even attempted to boot the computer, as expected, it did not recognize the scanner (and PCI and vuescan both told me so, it did not show up in device manager). To my big surprise it turned out hat I had last scanned slides in October 2005 (it felt like yesterday), and I still have about 20GB of slides to 'dust' from that batch. So something must have happened to the scanner in the last 4 years :-( Has anyone seen this, too, and found a way to fix it? There isn't any Polaroid support in Germany anymore as far as I can see, I don't have the dust brush (which was used when the scanner did not STOP blinking, anyway), I am reluctant to do anything to the 'innards' of the scanner just yet, and I hope for a miracle. :-) Best regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsche Börse Systems AG Chairman of the Supervisory Board/ Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Reto Francioni Executive Board/Vorstand: Michael Kuhn (Chief Executive Officer/Vorsitzender), Yves Baguet (Deputy Chief Executive Officer/ stellv. Vorsitzender), Gerhard Leßmann. Aktiengesellschaft with registered seat in/mit Sitz in Frankfurt am Main. Commercial register/Handelsregister: Local court/Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRB 42413. ----------------------------------------- Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfaenger sind, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese E-Mail. Das unbefugte Kopieren dieser E-Mail oder die unbefugte Weitergabe der enthaltenen Informationen ist nicht gestattet. The information contained in this message is confidential or protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete this message. Any unauthorised copying of this message or unauthorised distribution of the information contained herein is prohibited. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
