Using a Nikon LS-2000 scanner on a PC running Windows Vista

[rbsinto]

I just broke my Minolta Scanner, and as no one can fix it, I have gotten a Nikon LS-2000 from a photobud which I'll buy from him if I can get it to work.
My computer is a PC running Windows Vista and I have been running my scanners through Vuescan which works very well.
I had our Son who is vastly more computer-literate than I install the SCSI card in the CPU, but after hooking up the Scanner neither the computer not Vuescan recognizes that there is a scanner device hooked up. I'm hoping that someone here can help me trouble-shoot this to get the computer recognizing there is a scanner attached, and then hopefully getting the scanner to work.
Please and thank you.

 

[Boris Stupak]

Try installing the Adaptec drivers for your SCSI card:

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/


PS: When you say "installed the card in the CPU" you meant you plugged the card into a slot on the motherboard, correct?

 

[rbsinto]

Try installing the Adaptec drivers for your SCSI card:

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/


PS: When you say "installed the card in the CPU" you meant you plugged the card into a slot on the motherboard, correct?

Correct. We opened up the computer and plugged the card into the slot on the motherboard. You'll have to excuse me if I don't use the correct jargon. This is strange territory for me.

 

[rbsinto]

Try installing the Adaptec drivers for your SCSI card:

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downloads/


PS: When you say "installed the card in the CPU" you meant you plugged the card into a slot on the motherboard, correct?

another stupid question: How do I know which drivers to install?
Is there a serial number or some identity on the SCSI card. The card I have is not new but came with the scanner from a friend so there is no packaging for it.

 

[sevo]

another stupid question: How do I know which drivers to install?
Is there a serial number or some identity on the SCSI card. The card I have is not new but came with the scanner from a friend so there is no packaging for it.

In general, the card identifier should show up in the device manager (something like AHA2940), and on separately marketed Adaptec cards, it will also be printed somewhere on the circuit board. YMMV with OEM ware.

Vista was the last Windows OS with full legacy Adaptec PCI card support - things get a bit more flaky afterwards, with the earliest Win7 supported cards being 2940 generation, in 32bit computers only. If you have a 64bit computer, you may need a more recent (or non-Adaptec) card (which would be overkill on a scanner - these are mostly high-performance cards for server grade RAID with a million times the scanner bandwidth), or have to perform some tweaks to get a (officially unsupported) Vista driver installed.