Unoffical Vista X64 driver of LS-8000ED/9000ED for Nikon Scan 4.03

<p>Since I can't attach it here, please drop me a message if you need it, steelchn(at)gmail.com , no spam please.</p>

<p>Last night I actually got it working using your original driver. I used the advanced menu in Windows 8 to allow the installation of non signed drivers previously.</p>

<p>My crashing was caused by my firewire card, it was PCI-E and apparently the scanner does not like that. I switched it out for almost the exact same card, but PCI and it works fine.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help Steel Chn!</p>

<p>That's interesting, I have tried but failed with my old driver in Win8 first, even when I turned off the driver signature enforcement for sure.<br>

<br />Anyway, congratulation.</p>

<p>I join the huge number of persons thanking Steel Chn for his contribution. I have successfully installed Steel's Driver according to the extensive instructions provided elsewhere (<a href="http://www.colorneg.com/XP/Vista/7/driver-for-64-Bit-Windows/Coolscan/Nikon-Scan/)">http://www.colorneg.com/XP/Vista/7/driver-for-64-Bit-Windows/Coolscan/Nikon-Scan/)</a> <a>on</a> a self-assembled computer running Windows 8.1 64 bit. I used a somewhat more recent version of his driver published there as well. This updated driver includes an entry for the Super Coolscan 5000 ED (device Driver appears as LS-5000). Everything ran as expected (and fast).<br>

Armand Cachelin, Bern</p>

<p>Adding my thanks to Steel Chn for this excellent information. I used this driver to setup my LS8000 and Nikonscan v 4.0.03 on a newer PC running 64 bit Windows 10. The process worked as described here except that I had to temporarily disable enforcement of Win 10's policy that only signed drivers can be installed.<br>

The LS8000 is reputed to be finicky regarding Firewire compatibility. I used a Sonnet Tango USB 3.0 / Firewire 800 combo card and a firewire 800 to 400 adapter and it worked fine. I don't know what version firmware is in my LS8000 (and also don't know how to check it) but it was serviced about 5 years ago and I assume was updated then. <br>

Again, thanks to Steel Chn for creating this driver.</p>