After a long time I wanted to scan a few of my slides with my Coolscan LS 4000 scanner. Try as I might, the scanner would not get detected by WinXP. I use the NEC Firewire card that came with the scanner. I was able to connect my external drive to the firewire port but, somehow the scanner refused to get recognised. For the firewire exact cards see this link
Trawling around the net ,I found out that there were instances where some devices that were working on the earlier WinXP SP1 firewire drivers, were somehow not getting detected on the new firewire drivers in Win XP2.
Ok here is the situation work around. You need to replace Firewire drivers back to the firewire drivers from WinXP SP1
Assumption: You already have the firewire card installed on WinXP SP2.
1. Rename c:\windows\driver cache\i386\sp2.cab to c:\windows\driver cache\i386\sp2TEMP.cab
2. Create a new directory: c:\windows\1394_OLD
3. Copy the following files to this directory.
4.. From: c:\windows\inf Copy File: 1394.inf to c:\windows\1394_OLD
5. Unzip c:\windows\driver cache\i386\sp1.cab and copy ohci1394.sys & 1394bus.sys from the SP1 cab zip file to c:\windows\1394_OLD
6. Your C:\windows\system32\drivers already should have arp1394.sys, enum1394.sys & nic1394.sys ( From SP2)
7. Now Re-Install the IEEE 1394 host card. Disconnect all connected devices.
# Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager
Look for the FireWire controller (OHCI xxx, 1394 or similar).
Right-click on the controller, and select Driver Update.
* No, only this time (next)
* Install from a list or specific location (next)
* Don’t search I will choose the driver to install (next)
* Have Disk and point it to the c:\windows\1394_OLD directory.
8. Windows might prompt that a newer file is being over written with an older file. Click to say OK and continue overwrite.
9. When prompted for the arp1394.sys, enum1394.sys & nic1394.sys files point to the c:|windows\system32\drivers directory.
When the driver files are updated…you should be able to see the Nikon Scanner in the Device Manager> Hardware> Imaging Devices.
Scanning tip: Scan at full rez , 14 bit, with curves and LCH set to default (straight 45 deg reset histogram) and add USM 20,20,3 to off set the slight softness due to Digital ICE set to Normal , and NO post processing.
To know about the LS-4000ED firewire card, click the link.
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