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XP2 Killed my scanner

Ok, so it's more than a decade old, but...

         

grelmar

4:28 pm on Oct 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Finally got around to installing XP2 (the little "Updates Downloaded and Ready To Install" icon had been sitting in my taskbar, eyeing me suspisciously for a few weeks.)

Installed it, rebooted, and WHAMO - Blue Screen of Death, terminal reboot syndrome.

Managed to track it down to an incompatible driver for my 12 year old scanner, killed that, and everything works fine now.

Downside: That scanner was the 2nd oldest piece of hardware I still had connected and running. *sigh* It had to go sooner or later, but I use it maybe once every few months, so didn't want to blow money on a new one.

Upside: "Hon, I have to go buy more computer equipment..." :) Nice excuse to blow geek money.

Oh, and XP2 seems to have killed my webcam, which is only a year old. Anyone else having XP2 and imaging equipment problems? Seems weird that the 2 things XP2 broke were both imaging equipment.

PatrickDeese

4:35 pm on Oct 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Lots of older USB stuff stops working with XP because there are no drivers built for it.

Usually the Windows 2000 drivers work, so you might try looking for those.

As far as your scanner, look on the bright side - scanners are so much cheaper than they used to be - the first one I ever bought cost 1400 dollars. The one that replaced it cost $140. :)