Once installed, right-click your scanning software's desktop icon, go to , and set it to Windows XP Service Pack 3 . Driver Technical Details

: VueScan includes its own reverse-engineered drivers for over 7,000 scanners, including 57 UMAX models.

If you prefer searching for specific files, look for these hardware IDs in driver databases: Dailymotion·Motiontubehttps://www.dailymotion.com

Choose then "Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer" . Select Imaging devices .

In , follow the "Update Driver" steps mentioned above. Instead of choosing "Microsoft," select Samsung . Choose the CLX Samsung device driver.

Open , find the Astra 5800 (it likely has a yellow exclamation mark), right-click it, and select Properties . Go to the Driver tab and click Update Driver .

A popular community fix for UMAX scanners on 64-bit Windows involves tricking the system into using a similar driver.

Windows 7 has built-in generic drivers that can sometimes wake up older hardware. Plug your scanner into a USB port and turn it on.