Trying to get XP to detect Umax Astra 1220P

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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 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
 
Hello

Well could be that the LPT3 port is not detected by the software
and maybe it's looking for LPT1 and that's where the major issue
is, maybe consider getting a scanner that has a USB port, or
run it off your parallel port, but sounds like that's maybe your only
2 options.

Al
 
Thing is, it did detect it on a secondary parallel port previously (LPT2 or
3, can't remember now) I had a Pentium 3 board, and an ISA expansion card.
I've just fitted a P4 board and hence a new PCI expansion card, and I'm just
trying to repeat the set-up!
 
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