i have a compaq s4 100 scanner and i installed it and restarted windows and i made sure the printer was on and it wants me to run a test scan and i try but it says it cant find the scanner and i know its on and plugged in my friend says something bout a driver but i dont know what hes talking about do u know how to solve this porblem?Umm we saw your first post. A driver is a program that tells the computer what it is... First if you are looking for drivers http://www.driversguide.com secound make sure your USB on your computer works. Look under device manager by right clicking MY computer and go to device manager check to see if there is a yellow ! or a red Xsorry about doubling the topic my computer was going slow at the time and i DIDNT think it was LOADING it but i looked and there is a yello question mark by it what do i do?Is the yellow question mark scanner or USB. what is the word with the yellow question markits by the scanner iWell if its by scanner then that means you need to update your computer driver. First go to http://www.driversguide.com go look for your scanner driver. make sure you have the right model and the right operating system. Once you download it double click on the yellow ! and select update driver. Where ever you extract the driver use "Use specific location" to go there. It should find it and install.


By the way if it ask you to sign in use this screen name:

User: Drivers
Password: All

Or simply try installing from your CD to see if it works. If the scanner is old and you are installing it on a new OS then you probbly need to go to drivers guide to get an update version for ithow do i know what kind of driver i got?Well it should tell you by the yellow ! and select driver from the tab. It should tell you the year the driver was made and by who all you have to do is fine one that is newer then it. To get the right driver make sure you know the company that makes your scanner and the model nuber ex. Canon (company) FB620U (name of scaner)



Yes, what you are seeing is from XP view I don't want to turn on my windows98 computer so no one ask if they wondering why I have an XP view if I use windows98it doesnt say i have a windows 98 computer i click on the driver tab and it says no driver files are required or have been loaded forthis device to update the driver for this device click update driver ......i just now found thatYes, that is what you are suppose to do is update your driver. Right now the only way you can update is 1. You have the Scanner CD and install it, or go online download a copy of the driver and manually upgrade it yourself.. In windows98 you have to update the driver yourself when you download it. It should be somewhere where it tells you what driver you have or if it doesn't have one it should say Unknown Device or just Scanneri still cant find what drvier it had it just says compaq s4 100 but there nothing like the on the list but i lick on general tab and it says driver for device not installed to reinstall driver for device click on reinstall driversOk, it just means it knows what kind of scanner you have but it doesn't have the right tool to run it. First do you know what is the name of your scanner? Second do you know the company that made it? You don't have to worry on which driver it has right now. In driversguide it will list the drivers by date also, so if you want to download the latest one then ya you could or if you feel safer with an older one then ok you can do that. The most important thing is to look at the year of the driver ex. 1997. That means you should get a driver after that year.so i canjust install ne driver from that site cuz i know the name of the scanner and everything if this is what u r saying which one would u preferYes, just install one over the site. As long as it is a newer year from the one you currently have. Also make sure you have the right Operating system for that driver. You can look to your right and where it says OS on the tab make sure you choose Windows 98 and All Drivers if you want to see them all


Updating the driver should help. If you still have problems with the device let me or anyone else that works here know. That should help fix the problemi tried to install a cannon scanner drive but it say i have to open it with something what do i open it with?You don't open it, Once you extract the file it should be a .bin file or it should be in a notepad like file. On you driver screen when you hit [Update Driver] you go select [Specify Location] When the Window opens up on where to look go to [Browse] and go to where ever you extracted that file. Then hit [Ok] It should show you you teh name of the scanner then you hit next then Ok and your all setwell when i went to download the one i want it only took a sec and then its on my desktop as scandev.386
did i do it wrong?Once you get to browse did you go to where the file was. it would be something.ini file. Once you double click that it should show the name of the scanner. hit next and it should FINISH Hit Update Driver.



From there you browse and in search you put in where you downloaded that file. *Note some are LARGE because they come in package. Some are small because it contains the infomation you needed. All you do is once you select the folder that you put the doenload in hit next and it should install automatically.


i deleted the scandev.386 file ihad and downloaded a diferent canon one and its axually downloading a setup.exe file right now is that good?Well, if its.exe it maybe better. Heck I just installed a canon driver on my PC. Its a Canoscan FB620U The pictures are the steps i used to install it. It will extract into a folder C:/ temp i believe where the driver will be located. If you look at the picture try to do the best step you can do to mimic that procedure to install it with windows 98. then everything should be fineso once its done downloading all i do it double click it and it will extract?Wen you run it you should see it extracting to C:/ Temp then on update drivers you follow the steps and when you go to look for at a specific location you browse into C:/temp If you cant hit Ok then go to disk1 if you have that folder. Go into  the folder in C:/temp if there is a folder in there. Keep going into the folder till the OK button is availablewhen i upgraded it it looked like i i had to do was keep pushin next so i did and i needed a windows 98 sedisc and i didnt have it so i clicked next file did i dothe right thing?It required teh windows 98 secound edition disk... hmm that is important, but see what happens when you try it without. I recomend that you do but as you know all computers that came with windows 98 didnt actually come with a CD just a computer that says windows 98thanks foryou help but i guess im done withthe scanner bc i dont have the windows diskTry finding the proper drivers at Driver Guide.

Log in with Drivers/all.wont i still need a windows disk to do it? Quote

wont i still need a windows disk to do it?

do u know of them that dont ask for the disk?

i already downloaded a canon last night if i download a new one do i just click update driver on the tab?

all isee is the scanner with the yellow

compaq s4 100 scanner