Two things that stop working if I migrate to Vista x64

[alxtorrentazos]

Hi, I want to apologize for my poor english........spanish is my mother tongue, but I´ll promise to do my best to make myself clear.

I want to migrate to Windows Vista x64 Ultimate from XP SP3, but if I do that, I´d lost my Genius ColorPage-HR6 USB scanner and my LifeView Flyvideo 3000 TvTuner because this 2 pieces of hardware does not have drivers for 64bits OS. Tried to connect them to a machine with Vista x64, windows detects them but when it tries to find an appropiate driver on the internet or by using Windows Update, cannont find anything.

Send emails to Genius-Kye and Lifeview but no one answers.....this is driving me very mad, because I know this is not Microsoft fault, these two companies had Vista Beta and RC since 2 or 3 years before RTM and they decided not to gave support to hardware they made......And I´m not talking brandless hardware here with "no name" logo on them....I´m talking GENIUS and LIFEVIEW......grrrrr

Anyway, If someone could give me a hand on this, I will be very pleased.

LifeView TvTuner use a Phillips 713x chipset, but all the drivers that I tried, even from other manufacturers beside LifeView, with the same chipset, install, but I can´t have video signal, only static.

Everest reports this on XP SP3, maybe this info is useful for some gurus here:

[ Imaging devices / Genius ColorPage-HR6 USB ]

Propiedades del dispositivo:

Descripción del controlador Genius ColorPage-HR6 USB

Proveedor del controlador Genius

Archivo INF oem19.inf

Identificación del material USB\Vid_0458&Pid_2004&Rev_0000

Location Information ColorPage-Vivid 3150

[ Genius ColorPage-HR6 USB (ColorPage-Vivid 3150) ]

Propiedades del dispositivo:

Descripción del dispositivo Genius ColorPage-HR6 USB

Identificador del dispositivo 0458-2004

Clase de dispositivo 10 / 01

Device Protocol 00

Fabricante KYE Systems Corp.

Producto ColorPage-Vivid 3150

Supported USB Version 1.00

Current Speed Full (USB 1.1)

Is there ANY way to install 32bits drivers on Vista x64?....by force anyway

Thanks for your support.

Alx

[CoffeeFiend]

First, your english is just fine

As for your drivers, if they don't offer drivers for it, then there's no way to make it work...

That scanner model is dating from year 2000 or before, so it's not really surprising they're not going to spend money to write x64 drivers for it. It's not particularly high resolution, and being USB 1 it's probably not very fast either. Might be a good time to look for a replacement (you're going to have to move to x64 sometime, and you'll be forced to replace it anyways). You can always keep it on another computer for now (that isn't running a 64 bit OS).

The Lifeview 3000 card is dating from 2001 or before, so it's mostly the same thing. The latest drivers are a couple years old, just like for the scanner. So I wouldn't expect any updates for either anytime soon.

Companies only support their hardware for so long. And I had never heard of either company before actually.

[alxtorrentazos]

Oh well, I could install the LifeView 3000 on Vista 64 Ultimate......had to do a little trick, because drivers in the website of LifeView are compressed (an .exe file), so have to leave the message window open, and go to the Windows Temporal folder to use them. I have to force the install...meaning that I have to manually select "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" and "Have Disk".....but now all is working just great.

Now, about the Scanner...........maybe someone could help me because I want to modify an .INF file to make it Vista 64 compatable and install XP32 drivers this way.....is it possible???

Thanks.

Alx