UMAX 1200s,1220s,1220u,1600u,2000u,2100u,2200,2400s/slt Driver Reviews

"Driver will install, but stand alone utilities don't work. I can use my 1200U scanner to IMPORT a scan from with in a program like Microsoft Word or Photoshop, which is fine for me. If I want to call up the Vista Scan utility by itself it will prompt an error message.

If you open MS Word you can go to Menue Option "Insert" and then select "Picture" a

"It doesn't works on WINDOWS XP for 2400."

"UMAX 1220-U, WinXP; Works perfectly!

NOTE: After initial VistaScan installation, you must run the updater in the WinXP folder!

Refer to the included Readme.txt file for explicit instructions.

Thanks loads, Rod, for this ISO file."

"Es excelente el driver... Funciona perfectamente. Lo único, que para el que no sabe, está en ISO. A no desesperar usen el Daemon tool y monten la imagen ;). Saludos"

"Didnt you use or attempt"

"Tried converting Umax 1200S SCSI I to SCSI II then to USB. Driver said SCSI/USB, but didn't work for me."

"Installation of these scanners on windows systems is rather complicated, especially when you use a SCSI-Adapter. Speed is poor, stability and configuration of this driver can cause severe loss of life time and/or hair."

"Not working under windows 2000."

"I haven't installed anything yet so how can I make comment or recommendation. Maybe you should ask this questions or survey whatever you call it after your members have intalled whatever they have downloaded from your website so that whatever comments you posted will be at least accurate. I will rate my download after I have installed the software. For now I can't recommen

"This driver did what it was supposed to do, and did it well. If you need this driver, get it here."

"Read the textfiles on the CD! After install had to copy PV8630.sys to windows\system and windows\system32, copy 1220u.inf to windows\inf AND RightButtonMouse, Install. Reboot. Works with Astra 1220u."

"Used Nero 6.0 to burn ISO to cdrom.

No problem with install or operation of scanner,

Umax Astra 2100U. Works great !!!"

"I was not able to run the ISO file at all."

"works well with Win XP but the front panel buttons don't work (known problem with XP) but they do with Win ME"

"XP still will not recognize my 2100u. I will continue to 'play' with it to try to get it to work!"

"thanx to driversguide.com"

"This driver isn't able to install."

"And I can't used with XP. If I try to scan something at 300dpi 3 times, apeares an error message: "Allocate Memory error"

You know why?

Thank you

Cllaudiu"

"worked on one machine and not on another....give it a shot, who knows....it was easy to uninstall anyway."

"Not sure how to get this one open. Try another."

"Sorry this may be a repeat. Don't waste your time with this driver. Unistall the UMAX drivers and let XP seek it itself. Done that and 100% success."

"it does not have xp driver, you have to down load xp drive to work."

"worked very well, Thanks"

"Just thought id mention that a burner is not required. You can download a mounting program that allows you to run the image/iso file from your computer/operating system.

Nero has one built in called Image Drive, also google Daemon Tools, or Clonecd."

"I tried this driver for my Umax Astra 1220U scanner on my XP machine and I could not get it to work. I haven't found anything yet that will make my scanner work on XP. And I've read comments from other people on different forums that tells me I'm not the only one having this problem. And UMAX doesn't seem concerned to help us with our problem. They probably want us to buy

"Unit worked great thanks guys Karen"

""CWV1355": this diver does works with Astra 2100U & WIN-XP+sp2, and does not contain viruses. After unzipping files, follow the instructions in file “README”: 355P for parallel and 355U for USB connection). I did also record a CD of the unzipped version of the driver, and did the installation from the disc. The compatibility of driver is not really 100% - thi

"I could not download it fully so could not use it"

"I downloaded this for an UMAX ASTRA 2200 scanner. The driver needs a patch to work this model. The patch is available from the UMAX web site. After I installed the patch, the scanner worked fine."

"vs355u.exe is a better driver. it has the XP update and is a nice alternative to buying the software driver disc from Umax..."

"Orginal UMAX VistaScan Disc. Worked with Astro 2000U (USB) Scanner with XPpro SP-2."

"Burnt to CDRW and installed. Then I downloaded and installed UMAX's XP patch for my scanner and it works great with XP pro. Saved me $14.50 UMAX wanted to charge. Works for my Astra 2100U!

Link to XP update: ftp://69.15.148.138/scanners/vistascan/version3.55/winXP/2xxx_XP_upd.exe"

"I couldn't get my scanner to work with this driver. My computer kept saying, Scanner is not connected."

"drivers are in ISO format tried many times to install even used isobuster to unlock but kept on failing (unable to locate path). maybe its me?"

"This driver is not a driver!!!!"

"after numerous downloads that were accompanied by downloader.trojan and immediately killed by norton the ISO image would not burn to a disk and subsequintly worthless...."

"Hi

i think this is good"

"any suggestions? i burned it on to a CD but am still getting an invalid path error. I've got a 2100U with windows xp??"

"Installer failed"

"Tried burning this driver to a CD. Couldn't get it to run despite several varied efforts. Quite disappointed. Usually, the drivers I get from you folks are fabulous. This time, however, must be my turn to have a bad day."

"could not instal with a .iso extractor"

"Driver did not install properly.

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"vistscan_for_win_xp.zip seems to be the same driver without the need to make a CD. It did not work with my 2100U USB scanner."

"The Driver Disk created with out a problem from the ISO file, downloaded from this website. The Drivers are from Umax installed, but would not detect the 2100u scanner until I also downloaded the XP Patch from the Umax web site. After about 1 hour of playing, the scanner appears to be running fine with the XP operating system."

"waste of time. this is once again only suitable for SCSI. I have been searching for days for a driver for a UMAX Astra 2000U USB."

"This is just an image of the real Umax disk. Save yourself the cost of a disk, because Umax charges for them now, and just burn this one to a disk. It worked flawlessly with my setup. I've got WinXP Pro SP2 with a Umax SCSI 2200."

"No lo pude bajar pues no tengo banda ancha"

"the driver is very effective"

"I think it will be good"

"Wont install, error message "Pv8630 sys missing""

"Install worked fine. Trying it before the xp updated was run it seemed to be looking for a scsi device. Once the xp updater had been run all was fine."

"It is every good

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"I burned to disk using nero image with no problem.

I have XP Pro and Astra 1220U (USB). This driver seems to want to find scsi. Couldn't get it to work."

"Download the SCSI Driver as well for Win XP

(hr5w2k.exe)

for XP to see the SCSI card."

"Wouldn't unpack/install."

"i think it still confusing to use this driver"

"I recommend the program called 'CDMage' to view files in image files (.iso, .bin, .img, etc.) Just search for it on the Internet, and you should be able to download it. It's Freeware. It will allow you to view files in these images, extract files, etc.

As far as the older driver packages posted here, when you try to install them on Windows XP, be sure to Run the ins

"I am in the same situation as the other users. Downloaded, burned...now what?"

"To use this file, you must have a CD burning program like Nero 5.5.

When burning a CD, Nero gives the option of either audio, data or "other formats". Choose "Other Formats" and then select "Create a CD from an Image File". Direct Nero to where you downloaded this file(remember, you're looking for this file that is a "iso" file e

"what the heck is this iso file?? it said to copy it to a cd, so I did. Now what?? there's no coherent instructions anywhere. I can't run the file as it's not executable, and when I try to use the "have disk" option to install it windows doesn't recognize it because it's looking for an inf file. If you REALLY know what you're doing I guess it's useful, otherw

"I cannot get the drivers to reconize the scanner"

"could not download file, kept getting a page returned by IE6 rather than a download.

The other 4 I tried for making the UMAX 2200 work with XP simply did nothing or garbaged up my system. Would like to try this one if I could ever get it to download."

"I need a driver for an astra 1220u for win 98se,can anybody help?"

"send me umax 1220s scanner deiver for win98"

"descomprime los archivos pero no los corre"

"when i d/l'd the thing n tried to install i found that the drivers were for ME rather than XP, also this doesn't cover 1200s series as it's a printer styled scanner while this driver is for USB. it'd probably work for other versions (based on the comments above) but it didn't work under in my case."

"I have an Astra 2000U driver and I downloaded this driver file with teh last hope that the scanner will work. I did burn it on a CD as recommended but it did not work. While installing th driver it does not recognize the iso driver at all"

"can't rate this driver yet as have to burn it to cd first... However all the other drivers I have downloaded from DriverGuide

have been absolutely spot on.

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"besoin d'un driver pour scanner umax astra 2400slt"

"i have umax scanner Astra 1220S.This scanner does't have driver in windows XP so I just wanna try this Driver."

"i have umax scanner Astra 1220S.This scanner does't have driver in windows XP so I just wanna try this Driver."

"Thanks for the drivers. I burned the extracted .iso file to a CD and the installation on a w2k system was clock-work.

Can't get the program VistaScan to scan tho (preview is okay).

I want to add my name to the list of discontented Umax users who feel Umax have a cheek to charge for the upgrade to w2k drivers."

"alright, i've tried everything i've thought of. Installed from the ISO (vistascan) and no luck with my 1220s. It ALWAYS says LINK FAIL. I feel it is a problem with my USD-11 ISA (to SCSI) and Host Controller setup in Device Manager. CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS? A second idea was, to install the scanner on a win 98 system w/ the network manager and access my scanner from

"I burned the disk but was greeted with an overflow divide by zero error when attempting to install for the SCSI 1220S. The other option for parallel ports seems to work."

"Thanks for the redirect to the iso download for this driver. It doesn't make sense to purchase a product and continue to reinvest -in cash- with the manufacturer for updated drivers. This was a great help!"