Ihave an HP Pavilion running Windows 7 Home Premium and an HP Officejet 4500 510g all-in-one. I suddenly cannot scan from the Solution Center or from the front panel of my printer. The Solution Center first gave me an error:
8,[(8,101,0)]. I rebooted computer and tried again, and it scanned a third of a page and froze. I downloaded the new HP Print and Scan Doctor and ran it. It showed an error when scanning the drivers(no error number). It instructed me to unplug printer power, plug it back in, reboot computer and try again.Upon doing so it , the scan doctor came back with another error and said it could not fix the issue and showed me a link to HP Support. Clicked on the link and it was the Driver downloads page. I downloaded the full driver, but have not installed it yet. First, I'd like to know if, since i have the original disc that came with the printer, should i install from the disc, or install the downloaded driver? (Both have the same date of release on them). Are they different somehow? Is one better than the other? Secondly, I'd like to know if i need to uninstall any software or drivers before i install the new one? Or will the new one just overwrite and "fix" the bad one? Thanks in advance for your help. I really appreciate it!
P.S. If i do need to uninstall anything, Please tell me exactly what to uninstall. Thanks!