Nikon Scan 4.0 crahing.

[Roger Halstead]

Any one else have problems with NikonScan 4.0 crashing?

I thought it might just be with the bulk feeder, but I'm running into
the same thing with film strips. (positives)

It may run for an hour, or it may hang when you insert the film strip,
but usually after it's been running for a while.

Temperatures are normal. VPU is 53, system 38, and there is good air
circulation around the LS 5000 ED.

When I say, hang, I mean the kind where it won't even acknowledge the
three finger salute. Everything freezes.

I thought it might be temperature related, but it's a good 10 degrees
(F) cooler in here tonight and it's still getting the occasional hang.

Course the soft ware doesn't help.
IF you run the preview (insert a strip of 5 images) and let it create
the previews, then let it set for 10 minutes it's guaranteed to have
the prompter on the screen saying it needs to shut down.

OTOH, when you tell it to shut down, it is slow enough to respond that
XP thinks it crashed and tells you the program is no longer
responding. If you just tell it to ignore, the program will shut down
normally in about 5 to 10 seconds.

Otherwise it seems to run fine and fairly fast when no post processing
is used. (still hangs on occasion though)

Computer is a 2.8 Gig Athlon XP Plus with one gig DDR RAM and XP Pro.

The only time the system crashes is when running Nikon Scan 4.0

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

SNIP

The only time the system crashes is when running Nikon Scan 4.0

That usually indicates a driver or connection problem.
Are all cables properly seated?
Did you try re-installing NS 4.0 (there have been recent security Windows
Updates that may be broke some registry values used be NS 4.0)?

Bart

 

[Roger Halstead]

SNIP

That usually indicates a driver or connection problem.
Are all cables properly seated?
Yup!

Did you try re-installing NS 4.0 (there have been recent security Windows
Yup!

Updates that may be broke some registry values used be NS 4.0)?

I stopped by the local camera store and discovered they have the same
proplem using Nikon Scan and their LS 4000.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

RE/

Any one else have problems with NikonScan 4.0 crashing?

This is just idle curiosity, but what does NikonScan have that VueScan doesn't?

 

[uliano]

Roger Halstead wrote:

I stopped by the local camera store and discovered they have the same
proplem using Nikon Scan and their LS 4000.

I also have the same problem with a ls40, it started when I updated the
ls40 firmware from 1.1 to 1.2 and nikonscan from 3.something to 4.01

 

[uliano]

RE/



This is just idle curiosity, but what does NikonScan have that VueScan doesn't?

maybe I've been unlucky but I have never been able to get decent colors
out of vuescan, I also wasted money in getting wolf faust targets trying
to calibrate the scanner never coming out of cyan-greenish dominants

I don't know wehther the problem is vuescan or the targets, however
vuescan is clearly inferior (to me) also when scanning negatives.

I had unfaithful color also from nikconscan 3.something but when I
updated to 4.01 I'm finally satisfied even if I have to endure some crash

 

[Gary L Hunt]

Any one else have problems with NikonScan 4.0 crashing?

I thought it might just be with the bulk feeder, but I'm running into
the same thing with film strips. (positives)

It may run for an hour, or it may hang when you insert the film strip,
but usually after it's been running for a while.

Temperatures are normal. VPU is 53, system 38, and there is good air
circulation around the LS 5000 ED.

When I say, hang, I mean the kind where it won't even acknowledge the
three finger salute. Everything freezes.

I thought it might be temperature related, but it's a good 10 degrees
(F) cooler in here tonight and it's still getting the occasional hang.

Course the soft ware doesn't help.
IF you run the preview (insert a strip of 5 images) and let it create
the previews, then let it set for 10 minutes it's guaranteed to have
the prompter on the screen saying it needs to shut down.

OTOH, when you tell it to shut down, it is slow enough to respond that
XP thinks it crashed and tells you the program is no longer
responding. If you just tell it to ignore, the program will shut down
normally in about 5 to 10 seconds.

Otherwise it seems to run fine and fairly fast when no post processing
is used. (still hangs on occasion though)

Computer is a 2.8 Gig Athlon XP Plus with one gig DDR RAM and XP Pro.

The only time the system crashes is when running Nikon Scan 4.0

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

FWIW (maybe not much) I have a fairly similar system (except it's a 2.4GHz
P4 rather than an Athlon) which is behaving very stably with NikonScan
4.0.1. I've been running the software about 16 hours a day for the last
10 days (scanning slides only, on the SF-200 auto feeder), and last night I
left it running after I went to bed with no problem--40 hours of continous
operation now with no crashes. (Even when Photoshop gobbles up all the
remaining memory, it keeps chugging away.) NikonScan itself does die
every time the feeder jams, but it hasn't taken XP with it a single time--
all I have to do is restart the program, and it picks up where it left
off. I installed the latest Windows security updates a few days ago with
no apparent glitches.

None of that proves anything except what you probably already knew--the
problem is likely to be something buried in your specific system
configuration. Personally I'm astonished that v.4.0.1 seems to be as
solid as it is. (I know, knock on wood.)

Gary Hunt