I've an Adaptec 2940 PCI card + Nikon Coolscan (or any scanner) & attempting to run on Windows 2000 (Professional or Adv Server).

Now the device is recognised by W2K & drivers installed. It is correctly connected & terminated. I have Adaptec latest W2K drivers & Nikon latest drivers.

The device is available to select/scan BUT once selected reports that no scanning devices are connected

Nikon help said that I should d/load aspi32 from Adaptec but this specifically says that it will NOT work with W2K. Adaptec knowledgebase backs this up & says its aware of other SCSI manufacturers sending peeps to their website to d/load aspi32 & DON'T DO IT

They don't offer any solution either but report that W2K doesn't use the aspi architecture/layer any more.

Obviously going back to Nikon tomorrow but has anyone out there any knowledge of this problem & better still offer me either advice or a solution to the problem?

Please help as I am loathe (& skint) to get rid of a perfectly good scanner to replace it with a new one.

This is doing my swede in

Thanks

 

Which Nikon scanner Puff?

 

Coolscan III - Negative/Slide one for me pics

 

I have the aspi layer from Adaptec running under Win2k with no probs. It lets me use my scsi scanner

 

Goto http://www.deja.com

Do a search on something like...

"Nikon" + aspi + "coolscan" + "windows 2000"

Loads of people reporting installing the Adaptec ASPI driver fixed it even though Adaptec say it doesn't work.

 

That would be the aspi32.exe file then H?

 

IT'S NOW WORKING - ASPI32.EXE DID THE JOB - THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS - WATCH OUT ON GALLERY FOR MORE PUFF PICS COMING SOON