SCSI card problem

[Dave2]

Today I bought a Canon 1200S scanner that came with a PCI SCSI card. Now during the Windows 98 boot up there is a 5 second pause and I can't move my mouse during those 5 seconds. It happens even when I remove my scanner from the SCSI card. It comes from the SCSI card.

[qball]

After the 5 seconds, is everything OK?

Have you tried the SCSI card in another PCI slot. Hopefully you don't have it on one of the shared slots.

[Dave2]

I've tried it on 2 PCI slots and still it still does that pause. I'm thinking about returning the scanner.

[Axel]

Dave- check your BIOS settings and make sure the SCSI device isn't in your boot options.

Do you have another SCSI card running in the same computer? - You may have a conflict. Most systems don't respond well at all to two SCSI cards.

Could be a driver conflict - get in and remove the software in add/remove programs and see if that helps.

Could be the SCSI card install adjusted your IRQ distribution and now you have a conflict. Doesn't matter if you moved or removed the card - that problem would persist.

Could simply a failure of some other device in the system - Does device manager show any problems?

[canit]

My Adaptec 2940au has it's own bios that it goes through on every start-up, takes about 5 seconds to look for all the devices it controls.

[Red Spawn]

I also have an Adaptec SCSI card and it takes about 5 secs for it to pole the SCSI IDs too. It does this well before windows loads though.

I wonder if your problem has something to do with your SCSI card not having its own BIOS. I am also wondering if a SCSI ID or resident scanner program is being loaded and is polling the SCSI bus as a result every time your system loads.

If this is happening, you could try disabling the automatic loading of the software program on startup. If you do this you'd have to run the program before you used the scanner but at least you wouldn't have to go through it every time your system loaded.

To see if something is being loaded automatically try this: right click on the start button - choose explore - programs - startup. Is a SCSI or scanner program listed there? IF so, delete it and restart your system. Now to use your scanner you'll need to run that program manually...at this time you'll notice the SCSI card doin its polling thing.

let us know how it goes okay? Good luck!

Brian
Colorado Springs, CO