NT4 & USB Printer/Scanner Combo.

[Zapp Brannigan]

As we all know, NT4 does not support USB. I have a friend who has a old
PC, but a new Epson CX-5200 printer. Because Epson are such tight
arses, they decided to removed the parallel port from this model.
Anyhow my friend is totally hacked off with Win98 (don't really blame
him), and I talked him into having NT4 put on his PC.

The question,...

Has anyone tried any of the 3rd party USB stacks for NT4, and got a
printer scanner (or even better a Epson CX-5200) working under under NT4?

Was thinking of either the Bsquare USB driver for NT4
(http://www.bsquare.com/products/usbwin40/), or the free one here:
http://www.geocities.com/mypublic99/

Any advice appreciated, before I potententially waste a weekend trying
to get it to play ball.....

 

[philo]

As we all know, NT4 does not support USB. I have a friend who has a old
PC, but a new Epson CX-5200 printer. Because Epson are such tight
arses, they decided to removed the parallel port from this model.
Anyhow my friend is totally hacked off with Win98 (don't really blame
him), and I talked him into having NT4 put on his PC.

The question,...

Has anyone tried any of the 3rd party USB stacks for NT4, and got a
printer scanner (or even better a Epson CX-5200) working under under NT4?

Was thinking of either the Bsquare USB driver for NT4
(http://www.bsquare.com/products/usbwin40/), or the free one here:
http://www.geocities.com/mypublic99/

Any advice appreciated, before I potententially waste a weekend trying
to get it to play ball.....

although i have no USB devices on my NT4 machine...
i did give that free driver a try and it did detect and install the on-board
USB ports on my machine...so it might be worth trying.

if it does not work...and upgrade to win2k will prob be cheaper
than the USB support you have to pay for

philo

 

[Dorothy Bradbury]

NT4SP6 is a nice O/S - it is reasonably reliable, and efficient re RAM/CPU.

However, you would be wise to consider Win2k - you can pick up an OEM
copy on Ebay with key for relatively little money, and it's a good stable O/S.

Note that older versions of Office (97) and Photoshop (4.1) will not do well
under Win2k - only Photoshop 7 is really stable under Win2k/XP for example.
So there are secondary considerations in terms of O/S choice re s/w upgrades.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

NT4SP6 is a nice O/S - it is reasonably reliable, and efficient re RAM/CPU.

However, you would be wise to consider Win2k - you can pick up an OEM
copy on Ebay with key for relatively little money, and it's a good stable O/S.

Note that older versions of Office (97) and Photoshop (4.1) will not do well
under Win2k - only Photoshop 7 is really stable under Win2k/XP for example.
So there are secondary considerations in terms of O/S choice re s/w upgrades.

Unfortunatly, the hardware spec of this guy's PC is too low for Win2k
(PII 233, 32Mb).

I'm a sucker for punishment, so will attempt to get this working anyway,
will post the results to this thread...

 

[David Wade]

upgrades.

Unfortunatly, the hardware spec of this guy's PC is too low for Win2k
(PII 233, 32Mb).

W2K will run on a 233. Not sure about the RAM though

 

[Rob Morley]

Unfortunatly, the hardware spec of this guy's PC is too low for Win2k
(PII 233, 32Mb).

Slap in another 64MB and it will cope a lot better. I've had Windows XP
running with that sort of spec and it coped, ish.