Help with MicroTek Scanner..

[stewie]

Hi,
I've had my MicroTek ScanMaker 5900 for quite awhile. It has always worked fine.. but I stopped using it for about a year. Now I just attempted to scan a photo and in the "Preview" a blue page with faint lines showed up, I attempted it again and a red page with faint lines showed up. I tried this multiple times with basically the same outcome.. a bright color with a bunch of lines instead of my photo. I also tried scanning without the preview and it didn't produce my pic.
Does anyone have ANY idea how I can fix this, or whats wrong here? Thanks!

[Matt2000]

I am having exactly the same problem with a Microtek Scanmaker 4900. I've tried a few different drivers (earlier and later ones) and have used the Microtek software (Scan Wizard 5) and Photoshop and the preview and scans are green or blue with lots of coloured lines across them, or just blank. They've been blank with the latest driver I've used, and doing the line thing with the previous driver.

Any ideas how to fix this?