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Hp scanner won't work on vista
I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great
except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
Oops, sorry.
I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
Please install the Vista latest drivers for your printer:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s... 04464&lang=en [HP Photosmart Full Feature Software and Drivers] -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User --------------------------------------------------------------- "Sheryl" wrote in message ... Oops, sorry. I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
I do have the latest drivers but that didn't help.
I even tried using the entire download package from the internet instead of my disk because I thought perhaps the drivers weren't compatible with vista but it didn't help. Sheryl "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote in message ... Please install the Vista latest drivers for your printer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s... 04464&lang=en [HP Photosmart Full Feature Software and Drivers] -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User --------------------------------------------------------------- "Sheryl" wrote in message ... Oops, sorry. I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
I finally found out what the problem was so I figured I'd mention it in this
thread, just in case anyone else runs into the same problem and goes through the same aggravation I've gone through for the past two days. Apparently there was a conflict between the twain driver and my Wacom tablet. Once I uninstalled my Wacom tablet, the scan function worked. Too bad someone from HP didn't ask me if by any chance I had a Wacom tablet. It would have saved me a lot of time. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... Oops, sorry. I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
Sheryl, you ROCK!
Sheesh, wished this info was on the HP site or something, cuz I just blew off the past 4 solid days going insane trying to figure out what the flip was going on, since this used to work just fine in my Vista Ultimate and then recently when I went to scan something, tahts when all these problems showed up, so of course, I had no idea what could of caused all this or when, since it's been a while since I scanned anything. So here I was all evening long uninstalling Photoshop and every other program and reinstalling them only to find they STILl wouldn't let me scan anything and I was getting all those exact same errors that you were too! And I did the whole installing of the complete software and all that too and I tried only installing parts of the software, the bare minimum and like that, drivers only sort of things, and still nothing worked. And here it was something as NOT obvious as my Wacom Tablet, sheesh. Again, thanx very very much for sharing your solutions I can't thank you enough! .............md "Sheryl" wrote: I finally found out what the problem was so I figured I'd mention it in this thread, just in case anyone else runs into the same problem and goes through the same aggravation I've gone through for the past two days. Apparently there was a conflict between the twain driver and my Wacom tablet. Once I uninstalled my Wacom tablet, the scan function worked. Too bad someone from HP didn't ask me if by any chance I had a Wacom tablet. It would have saved me a lot of time. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... Oops, sorry. I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
A report form another happy support person who stumbled upon this
thread. I had a client with the same mysterious scanning issue. In his case he has a cheapo tablet - Adesso - but it had the same effect on the HP software. Unplugged the tablet and boom! the HP scan stuff worked without a problem. THANKS! On Jan 21, 1:46 am, Mark Dunakin wrote: Sheryl, you ROCK! Sheesh, wished this info was on the HP site or something, cuz I just blew off the past 4 solid days going insane trying to figure out what the flip was going on, since this used to work just fine in my Vista Ultimate and then recently when I went to scan something, tahts when all these problems showed up, so of course, I had no idea what could of caused all this or when, since it's been a while since I scanned anything. So here I was all evening long uninstalling Photoshop and every other program and reinstalling them only to find they STILl wouldn't let me scan anything and I was getting all those exact same errors that you were too! And I did the whole installing of the complete software and all that too and I tried only installing parts of the software, the bare minimum and like that, drivers only sort of things, and still nothing worked. And here it was something as NOT obvious as my Wacom Tablet, sheesh. Again, thanx very very much for sharing your solutions I can't thank you enough! ............md "Sheryl" wrote: I finally found out what the problem was so I figured I'd mention it in this thread, just in case anyone else runs into the same problem and goes through the same aggravation I've gone through for the past two days. Apparently there was a conflict between the twain driver and my Wacom tablet. Once I uninstalled my Wacom tablet, the scan function worked. Too bad someone from HP didn't ask me if by any chance I had a Wacom tablet. It would have saved me a lot of time. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... Oops, sorry. I have an update on this. As I was typing, I was trying the Microsoft document scanning program using the twain drivers. This gave me the error I mentioned about the server being busy and used by another program so I tried scanning using the Photosmart C5280 driver and it worked. I wonder if there's something wrong with the Twain drivers and if those are what are needed in order to use the software that came with the printer. Sheryl "Sheryl" wrote in message ... I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped working. Then more errors saying unable to communicate with HP scanning software, verify that it's working and installed correctly. And another error saying error occurred communicating with scanning device. I did an online chat with someone from HP last night and they had me try all sorts of things including running a diagnostic test that came back showing no problems. The HP tech told me to reboot my computer and then try scanning again because she figured everything should be fine but it wasn't. I had to go out last night so I couldn't try and reconnect with a tech and before I do, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any suggestions. I tried two different usb ports. One was a usb hub and the other was a port on the back of my computer. Both give me the same errors. I can bring up the Windows Paint program and scan using that but it doesn't seem as if I can use any other software for scanning. I tried using Microsoft document scanning but that too won't work. However, it gives me a different error message. It says server busy. Can't scan because something else is using the server. It gives me an option to "switch to" and this brings up my start menu. I don't know what it wants me to do or why I can't scan documents. Sheryl |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
Thought I'd update this thread.
Wanted to let all of you know, that I had sent this info to the HP people at their site to inform this of this issue. They were very happy to hear from me and have since added it to their Q&A section somewhere. But I figured they should know about this issue, since that is the first place most or all of us would look first and not here, or at least it was for me Anyway, they were good about it and thankful too. |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
I have a 5610 hp all in one and also a Wacom tablet...wish I had found this last year! Would have saved me a lot of frustration! So my question is, what do you do when you want to use the Wacom tablet? I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall everything everytime I want to use it. Thanks so much for everyone's help! -- cnicely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cnicely's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/cnicely.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/859186.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hp scanner won't work on vista
Have you tried plugging it in live?
What I mean is having Windows up and running, Have power turned on to your Tablet, Then plug it in to your computer. If there is a driver for it, Windows will find it. "cnicely" wrote in message ... I have a 5610 hp all in one and also a Wacom tablet...wish I had found this last year! Would have saved me a lot of frustration! So my question is, what do you do when you want to use the Wacom tablet? I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall everything everytime I want to use it. Thanks so much for everyone's help! -- cnicely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cnicely's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/cnicely.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/859186.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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