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<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>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>See if I can attach it here?</p>

<p>I have made a self signed X64 drivers for Nikon 1394 scanners for Windows 8 x64, tested with Vuescan 9+, NS 4.03, Silverfast 8.01r17, please use at your own risk.</p>

<p>One more clarification, Silverfast 8.0.1r17 x64 did carry and install a Nikon provided driver, it is verified in my fresh installation of Windows 8 last weekend. The problem is it was not digitally signed, so Windows 8 refuse to load it ( Windows 7 may allow it), so Silverfast 8 can't work any more for me with 8KED, unless I sign it with a test cert and tell Windows 8 to work under testing mode.<br>

<br />However, Vuescan did work for me, as it installed a signed driver. The problem is either Nikon Scan or Silverfast 8 won't work with this driver, becuase in device manger you will find a "Firewire Scanner" was installed, while NS and SF try to find a device with the name of "Nikon ... Scanner". I haven't figured out how to change the "Firewire Scanner" to its normal name becuase Windows 8 does not allow me to do this.</p>

 

<p>Thanks, it's my pleasure.</p>

<p>My dear fellows, if you encountered some conflicts between my DIYed coolscan driver and Silverfast 8 X64, please refer to this post http://www.photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00ZXCz for solution.<br /> I am not sure about Silverfast 8 32bit version.<br /> Cheers,<br /> Steel</p>

Hello,

 

I would like to add more information to my original post about the DIYed 64bit driver, but I didn't find any way

to edit my original post in http://www.photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00Ryck, so I have to start this new one.

 

Here is the update:

 

From my recent experience with Silverfast 8 Windows 7 64bit, I found there is conflict between my DIYed driver

and SF8, the phenomenon is SF8 will crash shortly after you hit launch/start button in its launcher.

 

If you really want to play with SF8, my recommendation for you now is to uninstall DIYed driver, then use the

driver which comes with SF8, it looks like that driver was from Nikon also, maybe Nikon would like to make some

changes unless being paid.

 

So the instructions are:

 

1) Go to device manager -> Imaging devices -> Nikon Super Coolscan 8K/9K ED, right click the mouse, the select

uninstall this device and check remove driver files in the confirmation dialog. When it's done, power off 9K/8K

ED, then reboot Windows 7.

 

2) Download SF8 and install. When installation is done, turn on 8K/9K ED, Windows should find the driver for you

automatically, you can check the driver provider is Nikon instead of "DIYed software".

 

3) I found Nikon Scan 4.03 and Vuescan 9 work perfect with the new driver from SF8.

 

BTW: You do not need any changes if you don't want to use SF8.

 

Cheers,

Steel

<p>Hi Mike, just go to <a href="http://www.hamrick.com/">http://www.hamrick.com/</a> to download a free trail of VueScan, which is also a great film scan software. When installing it, just ignore its driver offering for old scannners. Start VueScan to see if it can find your device, or allow you do some preview, even scan, this is to make sure you have the correct driver installation.<br>

If VueScan dones't find the device, allow you preview/scan, it means the driver installation was wrong. In this case, I have no more suggestions for you.<br>

If everything was fine with VueScan/4000ED, the problem should be with NikonScan. Either reinstall your OS or try with another desktop, or stay with VueScan.</p>

<p>Hi Mike,<br>

It looks like the problems is with NikonScan, please try to reinstall it again.<br>

And I suggest you to try VueScan or SilverFast to make sure if they would work with your current device drivers.<br>

Steel</p>

<p>Hi Mike,<br>

Solution 1) <br>

rename "Nikon LS-4000 ED" to "Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED" in your .inf file, and try to update driver again<br>

Solution 2)<br>

just remove the following lines,<br>

"Nikon LS-4000 ED" = SBP2Scanner,SBP2\GenScanner<br>

or <br>

"Firewire Scanner" = SBP2Scanner,SBP2\GenScanner,<br>

and use the following line instead,<br>

 

<p>"Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED" = SBP2Scanner_NIKON,SBP2\NIKON___&LS-4000_ED______&CMDSETID104D8</p>

</p>

 

<p>Thanks Bravin.<br>

Hi Mike<a href="../photodb/user?user_id=1717767"> </a>Blume,<br>

Your problem is the "Firewire scanner" installed in the Device Manager can't be recognized by NikonScan,it only recognizes device like "Nikon ....", so please make sure you add the following line into the .inf file, then start the driver update again. Or please refer to http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/coolscan-vista-64.html for Miles's great story with 4000ED.</p>

<p>"Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED" = SBP2Scanner_NIKON,SBP2\NIKON___&LS-4000_ED______&CMDSETID104D8</p>

<p>Good luck.<br>

Steel.</p>

<p>Yes, I have this problem too, with my LS-5000, Nikon Scan 4.03, and SA-21. If Digital ICE was disabled, everything is fine. If ICE is on, NS will report an error after scanned 3 or 4 frames.<br>

Any suggestions?</p>

<p>If you want to try it on XP 64, please install NS 4.02 instead, 4.03 was developed for Vista compatibility, I believe there is no much functional differentiation between these two versions.<br>

I have heard one successful story about 9000ED on Windows 7 X64, but it is not guaranteed.<br>

Personally, I didn't see any problems in my system, but we knew each one's situation is different, there could be hardware conflicts, software conflicts, malicious ware impacts, etc. So, please take your own risk while following my suggestions.</p>

 

<p>Hi Wolf, please send me a copy too, thanks for your contribution.</p>

<p>-Steel<br>

steelchn@gmail.com </p>

<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=3995956">Mauro</a>, apparently, it is the problem of driver files, Windows can't find them. Please double check the files.<br>

Jerry, congratulation, you found your way finally, thanks for sharing with us. VueScan driver should support most USB scanners, but its support to SCSI/1394 devices is poor, that's what I want to help with this post.<br>

<br /></p>

<p>First, please double check scanners.inf make sure it looks exact like what I posted as above, and copy & paste & save in Windows Notepad in ANSI text mode.<br>

Second, please run a clean install as I indicated before, instead of updating driver files, maybe it will make your life easier.<br>

Good luck<br>

-Steel</p>

<p>Hi Christian, we don't care why Nikon can't afford us a x64 driver, because we can DIY, but we do care about the product roadmap of Nikon scanners, is it dying?<br>

Cheers,<br>

Steel.</p>

<p>Thanks Christopher for sharing your success with 4000ED, I didn't have that one, so I missed it.<br>

Andy, VueScan's built-in driver does support Nikon V-ED ( I heard from others) and 5000ED( I tested ), as both of them are USB connected, and they works fine in NikonScan/VueScan with this driver . But for 1394 connected scanners like 8000ED/9000ED, VueScan's driver will do sth wrong, it will lead to 8000ED/9000ED being recognized by Windows device manager with wrong name/configuration, so NS can't see it correctly.<br>

So the solution for you is:<br>

1) Power on 9000ED, open device manager, then remove the "fireware scanner" instance, power off 9000ED.<br>

2) Uninstall VueScan, then reboot. <br>

3) Follow my steps above to install my driver.<br>

4) Check if 9000ED was listed in device manager ( with the name "Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED") and whether NS 4.03 can see it. If it fails, please start with a clean Vista x64 installation(Should be uncessary).<br>

5) Turn on V-ED, if it can't be listed in device manager or NS 403 can't recognized it, please install VueScan with the choice that "I have a legacy scanner that I don't have driver ...", otherwise, you can ignore the driver question from VueScan.<br>

The point is installing my driver first to support 9000ED in NS, then install VueScan driver to support V-ED if necessary.<br>

Sorry for the late response, I didn't check this post frequently.<br>

Good luck,<br>

Steel</p>

<p> </p>

It's great to hear more successful cases from the community, one thing to remind is there maybe some compatitbility issues with VueScan, as current VueScan releases has some non functional driver support to 8000ED/9000ED. The solution is installing my driver first, then when VueScan ask whether to install his driver in its first installation, just say no to bypass it.

<p>Jonas, I am very glad to hear your successful story, have fun with X64. <br>

Steel</p>

<p> </p>

<p>I knew someone has been looking for this for a long time, but shame Nikon never gonna to do this for our Nikon scanner users, even it may cost very little effort to do it.<br>

Yesterday, I upgrade my PC to Quid core Q8200 with 8G RAM and 1.2TB raid0 disks, want to enjoy the huge performance boosting for film scanning/processing. But after I installed Vista Ultimate X64 with SP1, I was too disappointed to find my 8000ED will never be supported by Nikon in X64 build windows.<br>

After some searching, I found 5000ED can be driven by Vuescan driver in Vista 64, but 8000ED can't be supported in the same way. I thought about to install a dual boot Windows XP just for film scanning purpose, but I felt it should be the last way I want to go.<br>

After some research on the Nikon Scan driver and VueScan driver, finally I find a perfect way to DIY my own driver, actually it is a combination of VueScan/NS driver files.<br>

The new driver has two files, first one is the modified scanners.inf from vuescan 8.5, the second one is NKScnUSD.dll from Nikon Scan 4.03 ( it can be found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Nikon\Driver\Scan1394" after NS 4.03 was installed).<br>

To install,<br>

Before step 1), please make sure uninstalling any previous 8000ED/9000ED device from the device manager, and check"remove the drivers either" when uninstall device, then reboot to start a clean installation.<br>

1) Cut the following text and paste into a new text file, and save as scanners.inf<br>

;========================= Begin of scanners.inf =============================== <br>

; scanners.inf -- Windows Still Image Setup File<br>

[Version]<br />Signature="$CHICAGO$"<br />Class=Image<br />ClassGUID={6bdd1fc6-810f-11d0-bec7-08002be2092f}<br />Provider=%Provider%<br />DriverVer=1/1/2009,1.0<br>

[Manufacturer]<br />%Mfg%=Models,ntamd64<br>

[Models]<br />; USB scanners<br />"Nikon LS-40" = USBScanner,USB\Vid_04b0&Pid_4000<br />"Nikon LS-50" = USBScanner,USB\Vid_04b0&Pid_4001<br />"Nikon LS-5000" = USBScanner,USB\Vid_04b0&Pid_4002<br />"Nikon LS-10" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNikon___COOLSCAN________<br />"Nikon LS-20" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___COOLSCAN_II_____<br />"Nikon LS-1000" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___LS-1000_________<br />"Nikon LS-30" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___COOLSCANIII_____<br />"Nikon LS-2000" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___LS-2000_________<br />"SCSI Scanner" = SCSIScanner,GenScanner<br />"SCSI Scanner" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\GenScanner<br />; Firewire scanners<br />"Firewire Scanner" = SBP2Scanner,SBP2\GenScanner<br>

;---------------- Duplicated from [Models]<br />[Models.ntamd64]<br />; USB scanners<br />"Nikon LS-10" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNikon___COOLSCAN________<br />"Nikon LS-20" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___COOLSCAN_II_____<br />"Nikon LS-1000" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___LS-1000_________<br />"Nikon LS-30" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___COOLSCANIII_____<br />"Nikon LS-2000" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\ScannerNIKON___LS-2000_________<br />; Other SCSI Scanners (type 6)<br />"SCSI Scanner" = SCSIScanner,GenScanner<br />"SCSI Scanner" = SCSIScanner,SCSI\GenScanner<br />; Firewire scanners<br />"Firewire Scanner" = SBP2Scanner,SBP2\GenScanner<br />"Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 8000 ED" = SBP2Scanner_NIKON,SBP2\NIKON___&LS-8000_ED______&CMDSETID104D8<br />"Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED" = SBP2Scanner_NIKON,SBP2\NIKON___&LS-9000_ED______&CMDSETID104D8<br />;---------------- USBScanner -------------------------<br>

[uSBScanner]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.USBSection<br />SubClass=StillImage<br />DeviceType=1<br />DeviceSubType=1<br />Capabilities=0<br>

[uSBScanner.Services]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.USBSection.Services<br>

;---------------- SCSIScanner ------------------------<br>

[sCSIScanner]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SCSISection<br />SubClass=StillImage<br />DeviceType=1<br />DeviceSubType=1<br />Capabilities=0<br>

[sCSIScanner.Services]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SCSISection.Services<br>

;---------------- SBP2Scanner ------------------------<br>

[sBP2Scanner]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SBP2Section<br />SubClass=StillImage<br />DeviceType=1<br />DeviceSubType=2<br />Capabilities=0<br>

[sBP2Scanner_NIKON]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SBP2Section<br />SubClass=StillImage<br />DeviceType=1<br />DeviceSubType=2<br />Capabilities=0<br />AddReg=NK1394SCN.AddReg<br />CopyFiles=NK1394SCN.CopyUSDFiles<br>

<br />[sBP2Scanner.Services]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SBP2Section.Services<br>

[sBP2Scanner_NIKON.Services]<br />Include=sti.inf<br />Needs=STI.SBP2Section.Services<br>

[NK1394SCN.AddReg]<br />HKR,,HardwareConfig,1,2<br />HKR,,DevLoader,,*NTKERN<br />HKR,,NTMPDriver,,"scsiscan.sys"<br />HKR,DeviceData,ICMProfile,1,0,0<br />HKR,,USDClass,,"{07C71AC0-FA90-11d3-B409-00C04F87578E}"<br />HKCR,CLSID\{07C71AC0-FA90-11d3-B409-00C04F87578E},,,"Nikon STI USD"<br />HKCR,CLSID\{07C71AC0-FA90-11d3-B409-00C04F87578E}\InProcServer32,,,%11%\NKSCNUSD.DLL<br />HKCR,CLSID\{07C71AC0-FA90-11d3-B409-00C04F87578E}\InProcServer32,ThreadingModel,,"Both"<br>

[sourceDisksNames]<br />1=%DiskName%,,<br>

[sourceDisksFiles]<br />NKSCNUSD.dll=1<br>

[DestinationDirs]<br />NK1394SCN.CopyUSDFiles=11<br>

[NK1394SCN.CopyUSDFiles]<br />NKSCNUSD.dll,,,32<br>

;-----------------------------------------------------<br>

[strings]<br />Provider="<a href="mailto:steelchn@gmail.com">steelchn@gmail.com</a>"<br />Mfg="DIY Software"<br />DiskName="Nikon Scan 4 CD-ROM"<br>

;========================= End of scanners.inf =============================== <br>

2) Install Nikon Scan 4.03 first, then copy NKScnUSD.dll from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Nikon\Driver\Scan1394" to the same folde as scanners.inf in step 1)<br>

3) Open Device Manager, select the device "NIKON LS-8000ED SBP2 ...." from the list, right click and select update driver.<br>

4) Click "Browse computer to locate the drivers", then point to the file folder where you save scanners.inf, then press ok.<br>

5) When Windows ask for your permisson to install the driver, please choose always install.<br>

6) Windows should tell you the driver was installed ok finally, at least it works for me.<br>

When it is installed ok, if you checked the details of the device driver, you shoul have 3 files in Vista X64 SP1, it is ksthunk.sys, scsiscan.sys, NKSCNUSD.dll.<br>

This driver can support 5000ED/8000ED, tested in Vistal X64 SP1, 9000ED and other X64 build are not tested.<br>

Cheers, and good luck,<br>

Sorry, I will not hold any responsibility for any damages caused by following my way, please take your own risk to have a try.<br>

Steel. </p>

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