Microtech usb-scsi adapter-Artixscan 4000T

[ko57]

Has anyone used the above (Microtech express)combination? I'd
appreciate any comments if the combination worked or did not. I want
to try this with my laptop which has no SCSI port. The laptop was
purchased to upgrade a very slow older laptop and as a desktop backup.


My desktop's modem went out and the video card is giving me error
messages-it is going out also, they are right next to each other in the
rear pci slots, so now I'm wondering if the 5 year old computer is near
the end. I hope not, but I'll get the replacement modem and graphics
card replaced soon. It has an Athlon 900, 640mgs ram, and winme/xp pro
dual boot, but the graphics card is the original 8mb-too small for
Photoshop 5le and large 35mm files, way too small for 120 film size
files.

Any help on this would be very much appreciated, thank you!

Kerry

 

[ko57]

BTW, the laptop has XP, Pentium M @515, 80gb 512ram which I will get an
extra 512ram added, and 64mb shared intel graphics (works well). I've
printed from my Epson 1280 (using the updated drivers for XP) and it
works fine. I also have Epson's 2450 photo scanner that has usb and
firewire (at least some 8x12's from 35mm it scans and I use 120 film
also) so at least I have backup...

Kerry

 

[Paul Murphy]

Has anyone used the above (Microtech express)combination? I'd
appreciate any comments if the combination worked or did not. I want
to try this with my laptop which has no SCSI port. The laptop was
purchased to upgrade a very slow older laptop and as a desktop backup.


My desktop's modem went out and the video card is giving me error
messages-it is going out also, they are right next to each other in the
rear pci slots, so now I'm wondering if the 5 year old computer is near
the end. I hope not, but I'll get the replacement modem and graphics
card replaced soon. It has an Athlon 900, 640mgs ram, and winme/xp pro
dual boot, but the graphics card is the original 8mb-too small for
Photoshop 5le and large 35mm files, way too small for 120 film size
files.

Any help on this would be very much appreciated, thank you!

Kerry

I've not used that hardware combination before but I do have a Microtek
(note the spelling) scanner - albeit a much lower spec one than yours. You
mentioned that the modem and graphics card in your Athlon 900 machine "went
out" - what precipitated this and what (precisely and in detail) is the
machine now doing wrong to make you suspect these items of hardware have
gone to hardware heaven and need replacement? I suspect the sudden onset of
2 independent items of hardware apparently failing at the same time could
be much more easily explained as a conflict perhaps due to an IRQ reshuffle
or similar. Graphics card error messages do NOT usually indicate hardware
failure but more likely software errors. You mentioned it was installed in
the rear PCI slot - are you sure its not an AGP card? The setup you have
with a dual boot arrangement is likely a contributing factor in this
machines current unreliability. Have you tried backing up all your data and
performing a clean reinstall of just XP on a freshly formatted HDD. Win XP
Pro has a very effective compatibility function where it can "impersonate"
aspects of older OSs to get legacy programs to function - have you tried
using this with any programs which wont work with XP by default?

Although this machine is far from state of the art in terms of spec, it
should still be able to cope adequately with simple scanning related
functions and I believe there should be no need to replace its modem or
graphics card. I believe you'd be better off saving the money you'd spend on
these for down the road when you can replace the whole PC and spend some
time performing a fresh install instead. Do you know how to do this?

Paul