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Scanner isn't found due to a driver conflict

	Symptom:
	When SilverFast is being started, it only displays a message "Scanner not found". The device is being connected to the computer via USB or "Firewire" (IEEE 1394). Other imaging devices are connected (e.g. other scanners, multi-purpose-printers (scan/fax/print combo devices), webcams, graphic tablets).

	Problem:
	Modern operating system use hardware abstraction layers to "talk" to device drivers. If the drivers are not able to release their "hold" on such an interface, the operating system might not be able to communicate with another driver via that interface. Such a drivers' conflict will then effectively be experienced as a problem with the simultaneous, or even only alternating use of certain devices during one computer session.

	Solution:
	Please disconnect all other scanners or scanner-like devices (e.g. multi-purpose-printers (with scan/fax/print capabilities), webcams, digicams, even graphic tablets) from your computer. Reboot your computer after having disconnected the other imaging devices. The operating system will subsequently not load the disconnected devices' drivers into memory. If the problem had been caused by a driver conflict, the operating system should now be able to load the scanner driver, and SilverFast will then find the scanner. If you like, you could reconnect device-by-device on any given reboot, until the issue crops up again, and you've thus found the "culprit".

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