In order not to have to reboot, you have to refresh the SCSI bus.

Turn on the scanner.
Go to START >>> Settings >>> Control Panel >>> System
Click on the Device Manager Tab
Press the Refresh Button
Your Umax Scanner will appear in the Window, or maybe not, depends on the
driver.
Click OK to exit out

You can now use your Scanner.

Rode
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At 08:02 AM 3/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a Umax scsi scanner running with win98se.  The scanner must be
>powered up PRIOR to booting the pc, otherwise mine will not work.  The
>scsi recognition is made at boot time, powering on the scanner later will
>not enable it to connect.

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