At 11:04 AM 12/10/2001 -0500, David McGriffy wrote:
[snip]
Do you other Polaroid users leave your scanner on most of the time? Do
you reboot your computer when you turn it on? Or do you just not have any
such trouble?
No, I always leave the scanner off unless I'm doing a scanning
session. Saves wear-'n-tear on the cold cathode light source (I *believe*
it's cold cathode)... I have to re-boot my computer (after turning the
SS4000 on, of course) in order for my Win2K system to recognize the
scanner. There is a way to get Win98/ME to re-scan its hardware in order
to detect new devices coming on-line, but for the life of me I can't
remember the technique (I think it has something to do with "refreshing"
the hardware in one of the Control Panel apps). I haven't been able to
discover the equivalent in Win2K (mind you, I haven't been looking all that
hard -- since I leave my Win2K machine on all the time [it's the server for
my household LAN] -- I figure re-booting it once in awhile is good for it
anyways, since Win2K still manages to produce the occasional Blue Screen of
Death after running for days on end; my favourite so far is the "Unknown
Hard Error" screen -- yeah, baby! *that's* the kind of reliability I look
to Microsoft for! 8^> ).
Ah, just found it on my wife's Win98SE machine:
Control Panel --> System --> "Device Manager" tab--> "Refresh" button
Try that. It's probably something similar on Win2K -- I'm just lazy. ;-)
Garth
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