SOS! Scanner stopped working

[Ron G]

I acquired a 3170 some time ago and when I got it home and connected to my computer I found that I could not get it to work.After some ~!@#$%^&*() I found the switch on the side and all was well.
I thought that I lost it again when I could not get the software to communicate with the scanner after having used it for several months and it turns out that this scanner is quite sensitive to the proper installation of drivers and in my case just changing the USB port throws it into a tizzy and it has to reinstall the drivers again before it will work.
I have an add on USB card with Firewire on it because I need it for my film scanner but if I change ports from that to my regular USB 2.0 on my motherboard the scanner senses that and won't work properly.Ron G

[LarryD]

Well I never had mine connected to the USB when I had it because the old computer I had it on had no USB but I did find out that I had to uninstall all the software and drivers a few times while I had it because it hated me. It took a full uninstall of the Epson software and the drivers then a reinstall.  Also I found that if I turned the switch off for any length  of time it got hiccups.

 Software must be installed then the scanner connected....

[lesged]

Ron,

I understand and appreciate what torment it is to have an Epson scanner go bananas and have intermittent to total failure. Although my SOS plea that led to my creating this thread was a false alarm, there have been plenty of times I've had to uninstall and re-install its software.

Usually, I can do it by downloading drivers without using the dedicated disk that came with my re-furbed Perfection 4180 Photo. Other times, the %@#$?>+/  scanner stubbornly demands the disk.

I also get the same reaction when I use my USB 2.0 CardBus PC Card Adapter, which I use when I've got lots of hardware pokers in the fire. Btw no firewall in my card AFAIK. When the 4i80 gets the hiccups, pulling the 2 USB BusCard out of my Dell Latitude D610's PCI slot and re-inserting gets it going. Other times it's back to uninstall/reinstall routine.

Btw, when I was looking for a new scanner ~ 3 rs ago, it was the our leader, grandpa Craig, who alerted me that Epson had a bargain price scanner and recommended it. He had recently bought a similar model and was quite pleased with it.

It's the only Epson scanner I've ever had and the only one that scans negatives and positives (slides) When my 4180 Photo is working, I'm very satisfied with its results, but when it's not, it's one sweet PITA.

Good luck, Ron!

[Ronald Bishop]

I have a 4070 Epson scanjet that I bought years back. I didn't have any problems with it till I bought a new computer with Windows 7 on it. I gave up on trying to get it to work with '7' .
I build me another computer from junkstore parts and have XP on it so I put the scanner on it. No problems.
     I haven't tried putting the driver for it on '7' in a long time, but it wouldn't recognize the drivers for the 4070 back when.
     Someone here tipped us off to an inexpensive scanner years back from 3bteck. It is an ACER. Big thing, supposed to scan negs and trans, I don't know, I never hooked it up yet. ----- Oh-well,one of these days? BTW- It figured out to a dollar a pound, 29 #.

[Ron G]

I had a computer pass through here a while ago that had Vista on it.That was the daddy of Windows 7.That operating system was so bad that it did not even have a driver for the on board video of this fairly recent Dell tower with a 2.6 P4 processor.Whoever upgraded it from XP ended up adding an AGP video card so that he could use his computer.LOL.
I added another partition and installed XP Pro so that the new owner could dual boot it to something that he could use.Ron G