Black Widow (Devcom) Blackwidow 4830 PRO Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
liz

3 Jun 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong? i cant seem to get the blasted thing to download. is the drivers toolkit needed? the free trial thing doesn't work....humph...been trying for ages!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
michael

24 Feb 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"i was unable to download the blackidow 4830 pro scanner device driver beacuace iam using my collage computer so could you email it to me at gold_2148@yahoo.co.uk"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Richard Aust

23 Feb 2004
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Worked a treat on both Win2K and XP"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Grant

23 Oct 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Is this the Win 98 driver?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
BezzA

15 Sep 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Been looking for this for ages (for XP)... downloaded and working D thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jak

18 Jul 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I cannot get it to work on win2000 but I notice some can, I am using the scsi version, I get the messages 1. check if scanner is connected 2.make sure power led is on 3.set bios parallel to epp 4.remove printer port pass through Any ideas would be helpeful, have done 1 2 3 dont understand 4"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nick Simpson

14 May 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I had this driver from somewhere before and lost it during a HD failure/reinstall Took an hour to track it down again ALL PRAISE - I SCAN AGAIN Many thanks to Chris for the posting"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Angela Conway

10 Apr 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thankyou so much, I've been trying to get it going for days now & just about given up hope! Works fine now, you're absolute Godsend!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
jay mcironside

9 Mar 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thanks for the driver. Having changed operating systems i found my original drivers no longer worked. The download was easy and worked fine. Ta for that"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
John

14 Feb 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Nice one Chris !!! Cooking on Gas again Thanks to you"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Elijah

6 Feb 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Praise the Lord, he lead me through the wilderness to this driver on HIS business. HE shall guide us through all sorts of technical problems."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Paul Lovelady

11 Jan 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Down loaded, hit install, up and running perfect. TA! owe you a pint when ever you are in Liverpool England"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Chris

1 Jan 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Tried the driver with scanner connected to Adaptec 2940 SCSI card in Windows 2000 Professional and it does not work, files do not contain info for device, any ideas - Thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mike

30 Dec 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Couldn't get the installation disc to work, this driver did the business, windows 98. Thanks."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Tony Hateley

19 Dec 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"downloaded unzipped works great with xp thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
northan

15 Dec 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"just moved to xp. Black Widow wanted £14.69 for the driver! This worked first time . Many thanks."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
ian

9 Oct 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"nice one mate i really needed my scanner to work this driver saved the day cheers chris"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mik

6 Oct 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thank you. After a few days of messing around with my scanner, I can now work in WinXP. Take a day off work!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
harry

3 Sep 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Ta Chris the driver worked a dream, downloaded first time installed in Windows 2000 first time, thanks again Chris"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
It is XP compatible

25 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"It is XP compatible, as I asked on vnu forums, somebody replied to confirm this."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mauricio

23 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I've install the driver but the scanner is still not working. when I tryed to open it tells me that is unable to open it"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jan Hill

19 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Brilliant! Piece of cake - even works with Win2000. Thanx!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
fahd

17 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"plzz..is there some one to tell me that this black widow is winXP compatible or not???"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
The Mash Man

12 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Very easy to download and install, It works just fine, although not sure if the driver is Win XP compatable P.S. Driver Guide the ONLY place for those lost drivers, CHECK IT OUT !!! ADD IT TO YOUR FAVOURITES"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
C.

10 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"2 hours lloking for a site (blackwidow seems to have closed) to get a bleedin driver - wished I'd came here 1st!!!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Paul

16 Jul 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Works just fine. Thanks!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
noisy

10 Jul 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thanks for the driver, is itwin XP compatible??"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Frank Daw

20 Jun 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"It downloaded after saving and unzipping. It is working efficiently. Thanks Chris."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
walter

11 Dec 2000
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"still trying. very slow to download"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Lubbely
Tested on Windows XP
14 Nov 2008
(10 hours after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"no problems, over the moon, thank god, thought i was gonna have to buy a new printer"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Tony
Tested on Windows XP
14 Jun 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"Driver loaded fine, but think I have some sort of compatabilty problem.

Did not work in the end even though this driver may be fine"

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
John Page
Tested on Windows XP
3 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"after sorting out forgetting log in details all ran v. well"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Sam Maiye-Ologe
Tested on Windows XP
17 Mar 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Easy installation & wonderful performances"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Toby "Whippet"
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional
1 Jun 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"W2000 fine: 4830 Pro on ECP mode Parallel Port, bi-directional comms, hi-speed Xfer, stability too, ...so far: day One :-) not to be confused with 4830 SP or non Pro 4830, I can try to upload some alternate drivers for them , soon,."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Pete Jones
Tested on Windows XP
24 Apr 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This installed first time on XP with SP1. No problems."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Jimmy Black
Tested on Windows XP
15 Dec 2004
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Since Black Widow has gone bust and my disk is corrupt, this driver saved my scanner."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Peter

18 Aug 2004
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Cannot instal on XP Professional.

Run setup.exe and got message "Setup has encountered a problem.."

followed by "files required for windows have been replaced by unrecognised version..."

Using the scanner installer in control panel gave "specified location does not contain information about your hardware" (specified location was folde

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
JohnB

14 Aug 2004
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Jak

62.254.0.x

18 Jul 2003

3:09:53 CDT

Like Jak, I cannot get it to work on winXP, I am using the scsi version yet get the messages 1. check if scanner is connected 2.make sure power led is on 3.set bios parallel to epp 4.remove printer port pass through Any ideas would be helpeful, have done 1 2 3 dont understand 4. It appears to be the 'PP' parallel versi

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Ian Baxter

3 Aug 2004
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Thanks. Worked a treat. I'll make sure the dog can't eat this floppy.

Ian

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