I have an old Microtek and also a Nikon Coolscan scanner. I they are not
powered on at system startup, I can get them recognized in device manager
by clicking the "refresh" button. It takes a few seconds to happen - be
patient

Joel Bluming
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>they were on sale for $49 recently, and with this particular scanner
>it
>MUST be powered on during bootup in order for the computer to see not
>only the scanner, but to see the printer attached to the scanner.*
>The
>scanners aren't defective, that's just the way they work. I presume
>KB's
>situation is similar.
>
>*I found this to be inconvenient, so I installed a 2nd parallel port
>in
>3 of the 4 systems and connected the scanner to that new port.
>Alternatively, the scanner software includes a small utility that
>rescans the bus and hopefully finds the scanner after the system has
>been powered up, but I found that it wasn't always successful, further
>prompting me to go with the additional parallel ports.
>
>
>Jeff Delzer

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