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Post by buzzy on Apr 8, 2015 9:43:06 GMT
I have got the above scanner designed to run on Windows XP which I used on my previous laptop. My current machine is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
I am wondering if I can use this scanner on the W7 machine somehow? When I insert the operations disc, it tells me the system is incompatible. I have tried the various options on the Epson website without any success, I would appreciate some advice to overcoming this, it is a superb scanner and in pristine condition.
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Post by jojo on Apr 8, 2015 9:49:27 GMT
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Post by merchant42 on Apr 10, 2015 17:37:44 GMT
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Post by mikkh on Apr 10, 2015 21:11:53 GMT
This answer on tom's hardware is most likely to work.....
Here is another solution
This works for me with Vista x64, Windows 7 x64, and Windows 8 x64.
I am copying from the above mentioned site. Make sure to follow the steps very carefully.
What did work was installiong the x64 driver from Epron for their Epson Expression 1680 Professional scanner instead. I had to force the Device Manager to install and use .inf file for the 1680.
Here's how:
Download and run the Epson file. Epson Expression 1680 Professional
It will extract to here:
C:\EPSON\epson12203_twain_driver_and_epson_scan_utility_304a
Then cancel the install process.
Open Device Manager.
Right click the scanner (will have yellow "!")
click update driver, click click :Browse my comp", click "let me pick from list..." , click have disk, then browse to here:
C:\EPSON\epson12203_twain_driver_and_epson_scan_utility_304a
pick any inf, and it should go from there.
You could do similar with your driver disk - DON'T run the setup/install file, it will obviously fail
Use the update driver method from device manager as above, but point it to the CD/DVD instead
You'll probably need to be inside another folder for it to work, one hopefully is called twain driver or similar that contains the INF and driver files
Worth trying before downloading the 1680 file
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Post by vikingken on Apr 11, 2015 7:08:54 GMT
Some scanners will only work when the drivers are installed using the Device Manager, even when you have the genuine drivers. I had one old Canon scanner without drivers, it wouldn't scan into the computer. By opening Paintshop Pro and importing from the scanner, it worked no trouble. The computer recognised it for what it was, it just didn't work without importing. Not even the Device Manager would install the drivers I had on the disk and the website didn't have any updates on what I had.
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Post by buzzy on Apr 11, 2015 8:34:58 GMT
Thanks guys, I have finally managed to get the scanner running.
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