Thanks all. I finally got the machine working. I orginally had a Visioneer scanner. Which I would suggest to anyone. It has a great suite of software and performs esilly. One press of a button and the scanning is done. However, it conflicted with a vidio scanner I have so I had to replace it. The best scanner I could find at the time with similar features was the HP. =:-| > I would have perferred the acer. In the past my experience with HP scanners was always favorible. The 3200C has problems I guess because it exists within HP's lower mid ranged price. It scans fine but has a problem with the power supply. Once it has malfunctioned ONLY unglugging waiting 10 seconds then pluggin in the device about 6 times seemed to work! Reinstalling the software did not! Currently there is a software fix but that was not working for me. So you can understand my frustration. When I want to work I want to work. I don't want to worry. It had reached the point where it was making me not use the scanner because I was afraid that it would not work.( Will it work this time. Or will it work a little then lock up. ) Ok. I feel better. Excuse the rant. Anyway thanks for you support and suggestions. Antoonio, I had used magazines and past experiences before making my purchase. But none mentioned the power supply defect, if one visits HP technical support page there are plenty of conplaints about the "feature" however. Anyway thanks for your support and suggestions. Bsteph