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[p.mc]

O\S XP Home Edition

I have an Epson GT-5500 scanner and have a port on the back of my tower that
fits the connecting cable, but it has a printer symbol next to it. So I took
a chance and plugged it in there seeing that there wasn't anything else I
could use.

But I can only power the scanner on if I pull lead back out. Is this
because this port is stricly for a printer, and if so does this mean I have
to buy a USB compatible scanner instead.

thanks in advance
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[Mary Sauer]

From what I gather, this scanner uses a SCSI board.

http://www.scantips.com/scsitip.html

The link below is included in the article above. You have a dinosaur scanner, you
will have to do some research to get it up and running.

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppdetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASPI-4.70
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"p.mc" > wrote in message
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> O\S XP Home Edition
>
> I have an Epson GT-5500 scanner and have a port on the back of my tower that
> fits the connecting cable, but it has a printer symbol next to it. So I took
> a chance and plugged it in there seeing that there wasn't anything else I
> could use.
>
> But I can only power the scanner on if I pull lead back out. Is this
> because this port is stricly for a printer, and if so does this mean I have
> to buy a USB compatible scanner instead.
>
> thanks in advance
> --
>
> Please type in p.mc in personal replies
> or leave signature otherwise posts will
> not be recieved
>
> Regards
> p.mc
>
>