Scanner just REFUSES to work

[duragezic]

I know I know this belongs in Tech Support or Peripherals but I've had it there before in the past and it just doesn't get much hits and this thing is such a b*tch to get working I need it in here.

I have an HP ScanJet 4300c and I can't even get the program to load. I haven't gotten it to work since I last formatted. I have the PrecisionScan LTX 1.1 software. I install it, restart, then plug in scanner (USB) and it detects, does its thing. Then when I try to load the program it gives me some type of memory address error. I've tried uninstalling it, removing .dlls/.infs, and registry entries so it's a clean install, then try reinstalling and different combiniations. Like plug in the scanner w/o restarting, have it plugged in while installing, etc... The readme says to plug it in and then it will ask for the drivers but if I don't have ANY HP software on and plug the scanner in, nothing happens when I plug it in.

I'm outta ideas. F*cking thing never worked right. Never worked on my cel 550 system, then it worked fine for a while on this system until the last format! I get mad trying to get it work, ala Office Space. "Cmon ya little f*cker! Yeah, lets do EXACTLY that!"

 

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[Om]

It would help to know a bit more about your system, like which OS are you running and what's changed besides the format when the scanner worked last? Any new hardware? New drivers for anything?

 

[duragezic]

Running win2k. No change in hardware. The only drivers that are different is that I have newer video card drivers.

I think everythings messed up now though. Even though its a fairly new format, I get the exact same error when I run the scanning software as I do when I quit Civ3. And Diablo 2 just doesn't work at all... And Outlook Express takes like 4 minutes to load. So somehow soemthing is just completely messed up. I'll format tonight or tomorrow.