HP Scanjet 5 p Scanner using with hp media center pc 873n - Windows XP

[Louise]

I would like to find out what I have to do so I can use
my HP ScanJet 5p Scanner with my Windows XP. What do I
have to purchase. The cable I have from my scanner
cannot be hooked up to my hard drive. Do you know what
cable I would us to connect to my hp media center hard
drive? Can you please help me. thanks so much, louise

 

[RA]

Did you get a new pc and you are trying to use an old scanner with it? I
think you need a SCSI card and connector to connect that scanner. And a new
pc would probably not come with one because most new scanners connect using
USB.

 

[Rob Schneider]

My recollection is that HP5p is a scanner which connects to a PC, not to
a hard drive. Futher, it connects via a SCSI interface card. I don't
know what a HP media center hard drive is.

The HP5c is getting old (c. 1997) and you might have problems getting
all the pieces to work on XP (hardware, software, etc.) Try with more
info about this product at
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...n&submit.y=0&submit.x=0&lang=en&cc=us&y=0&x=0

I have mine working just fine on a Win 98 machine and I'm going to just
leave it that way.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I would like to find out what I have to do so I can use
my HP ScanJet 5p Scanner with my Windows XP. What do I
have to purchase. The cable I have from my scanner
cannot be hooked up to my hard drive. Do you know what
cable I would us to connect to my hp media center hard
drive?

One never connects a scanner to a hard drive. There's no way to
do that, and it's not what you should be attempting.

Scanners are normally connected to either a USB port or a
parallel port on the computer. I'm not familiar with the ScanJet
5P. Does it use both parallel and USB connections or just one of
them? Which type of cable do you have? How old is your computer
and what free ports does your computer have?