UMAX Astra 1220s scanner driver with xp

[Tanner31593]

Ok,

so i inherited a umax astra 1220s scanner,
and ive always wanted a scanner,
i dont know why...........
but anyway,
i have some drawings of teachers finding their knife/toaster related deaths that i would like to scan,

but the problem is that windows xp does nothing when i connect the scanner,
im assuming i need the drivers,
but i have no idea where to get it,
i downloaded one driver but i had an error (everything seems to be an error these days with windows, i tried to put 6 computer games on it, "catastrophic failure, unknown error", "out of memory", "unable to install, see your operating system manufacturer",......it just makes me sick.

anyway,

does anyone have any sites i could get this driver,
i may need multiple sources in case god forbid i get an error......(bsod seems to be the favorite these days.......thank god for ubuntu)


THanks,
Tanner

[Livy]

http://www.umax.co.uk/support/drivers/currentdrvr.htm

[Tanner31593]

Well those drivers are for windows 95/95/2000/nt and i have xp.

[lynx]

If your scanner has a parallel interface you may as well forget it for XP connectivity, AFAIK they never got the parallel interface working properly, even on W2K.

However, I assume the "S" suffix means serial or SCSI connection.

In either case, the interface should not have changed between W2K and XP, follow the instructions supplied for W2K.