Was talking to Support lead guy [deleted] for a few minutes explaining I tried 3 different scanners conneting to all USB ports on this new ThinkPad X60s I bought, and none work with windows xp sp2 Device Manager showing the scanner but having a yellow mark next to it indicating a problem with loading its drivers.  Yet 3 different products, a HP, a Canon and a CardScan scanner all 3 reproduced the same bug in this X60s. Support guy said I have to talk to the 'Elite Software Support' and pay $99 for them to fix this problem!! I just couldn't believe it! When I said this is a system problem and reproducible with 3 separate scanners, he said he can't help me and hung up!  :smileysurprised:

I was in shock for a few minutes. Had no, absolutely no way of seeing that coming from IBM/Lenovo!! For years I've recommended ThinkPads for their quality and terrific service and support. I just was shocked decided to rip off their customers like this and charge hundred bucks to fix a system problem on their laptop that has active and current 3 year warranty!!

What do I do? Who do I complain to? How can Lenovo get away with this. I also have an old ThinkPad T40 Windows XP SP1 that has never had any issue with same HP Multifunction scanner. And I upgrade to this new X60s to run into this crap? I just need to take a cold shower my friends to calm down from the shock of what happened today with the IBM 'legendary' service and support! :smileymad: I just feel so upset about this and will not be maniplated and defrauded to pay Lenovo to support and fix system problem of a top end X60s notebook under warranty.

Please help!!

Ron
925-217-xxxx

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ron, i'm not sure you want this to show to the world and i don't believe forum rules allow it..

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Hi Bill,

Thanks for your response. Yes I tried all the USB ports including the ports in the docking station.  I suspect the issue is some incompatibility between windows' USBScan.dll library interface and the BIOS on the x60s.  Since you have an X60s and if you had a chance to test a scanner with it, I'd love to know what happens.

As far as calling back to and asking for next level support, that guy who hung up was the next level support!! That's what made it even more unbelievable what he did.   I'm thinking of getting rid of this dog on ebay and switching to another brand. Seeing this new policy by Lenovo to cannibalize their customers and charge for their support when product is under warranty,  perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the ThinkPad dynasty.

Ron

Message Edited by billmorrow on 02-09-2008 01:54 AM

~%#^$&***!-095!
the dumb scanner started to work..

i had it plugged into my X60T and THAT did not see it so i was doing something else and VIOLA! it suddenly saw the scanner..
so i yanked the USB cable out and into the X60s it went (where there is scanner software) and it worked just fine..

you DID say the USB ports work with other devices..?
if so then it looks like you have some sort of software problem..
which is not a warranty claim matter...

do you have a spare HDD you can try a clean factory image on and the scanner on that OS..?

Message Edited by billmorrow on 02-09-2008 02:19 AM

Message Edited by billmorrow on 02-09-2008 02:37 AM

Bill,
Thanks so much for testing.

When I plug in the scanners, same symptomb in all 3 cases. 3 cases were first an HP MultiFunction 7130 that has scanner driver ofcourse, then I tried a Canon multifunction which has a scanner, and 3rd case a sand alone scanner called CardScan 60.

In all 3 cases, the drivers from the cd that came with scanner was installed first before physically plugging in the scanner to USB Port.

Then when the scanner is plugged in, windows does see it right away and the little text bubble pops up on the right bottom corner on tast  bar that names the product exactly and says it was detected.

Then you try to use the scanner and all the applications to use scanner say no scanner is plugged in.

Then you go to Device Manager and see that the plugged in Scanner is in the Imagine Devices list of devices, but the infamous Yellow circle mark is next to it indicating a problem. In all 3 scanner cases, when you do the properties on that scanner in the devie manager and properties window pops up and in Device status text box it says: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

Believing this status,  have spent totals of hours on the tech support of each of those 3 scanners, all concluding there their scanner drivers are property installed, and no historical issue those scanner have with Win XP SP2. They all concluded the issue is lower lever than the product driver.

In process of trouble shooting I have installed and reinstalled repeatedly the usbscan.sys file which is a windows internal library for usb scanner.

So I guess in summary, I want to say when I plug in the scanner, windows does 'see' the scanner and it shows up in the device manager, but the scanner is not usable since windows has trouble with it. This X60s was shipped to me with Win XP SP2.

If you can think of something, or go back and see if your scanner is actually loaded property in device manager and is usable by a scanner application, that's perhaps something to check.

Cheers,
Ron

Message Edited by billmorrow on 02-09-2008 02:30 PM