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scuzzy cards

Feb 17, 2004 6:54PM PST

i would like to move from win 98 to xp, but my scanner has a scuzzy card runing it. It is an epson perfection 636. some people tell me it wont work, some say it will.I just dont know what to go by anyboy have any ideas.
thanks
bluesman

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Re:scuzzy cards
Feb 17, 2004 7:40PM PST

"Some people" don't know what the hell they're talking about.

By and large, any hardware that will work on Win9x will work on XP, SCSI or otherwise. You will need a different driver, one written for Win2K/XP, but aside from that it makes no difference what the physical connection is to the computer.

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Re:Re:scuzzy cards
Feb 17, 2004 9:01PM PST

Here is a suggestion, find the manufacturor site of your scanner, and obtain the driver you need and copy it to your hard drive. Many times XP may carry the support driver, simply by pluggin it in, and it will give the message at your systray, that it has found new hardware, and it automatically installs the supporting software for it ( this worked for my HP scanjet scanner, and HP printer, nice having no driver disks to load). But if it does not have the support you can run the device driver you obtained from your manufacturor. If the files are in opened form, you must point the hardware wizard to the inf files(the driver file) and it will install the device. The inf file (looks like a white sheet of paper with a yellow gear in the center of it).