PCI-GPIB for Mac firmware downgrade

Hi everyone.
My question to you is: How can I get back to my old firmware on my pci-gpib controller after updating it?
I just purchased a vintage, late 90's, colorgetter drum scanner that runs off the pci-gpib on a mac. It did not come with a mac so I picked one up for $60. It was loaded with os10.4. With the drivers installed it would crash on boot. The forum said to upgrade firmware. I did. Boot problem solved. However, after the fact, I learned the scanner software only ran on os9.0 and earlier. After loading os9 the software cannot see the scanner. I need to get back to the old firmware that used drivers NI-488-2 ver. 7.6.6.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Matthew B.,
Thanks for replying. The drivers installed were ver. 7.6.6, which came with the original package. I installed the ver. 7.6.7 but with the same results, "scanner not found".
Here is what I know to be true:
The scanner worked fine on os9.0.4 with the original firmware(ver. unknown) on the NI-488.2 PCI-GPIB card, using 488.2 drivers ver. 7.6.6, with the scanner software ColorRight 5.0.1.
As mentioned in my original inquiry, I upgraded the firmware using ver.2.4 and drivers 2.4, now I no longer can see the scanner using ColorRight 5.01, with which I do have the dongle.
Oddly enough, I have a version of ColorRight Pro 2.0 (demo, which means I can use the software but I cannot do a final scan to disk unless I can find a dongle for it) that sees the scanner. The drivers for the Ni488.2 were built into the software.
Because I only have the dongle for ColorRight 5.01 I need to go back to the original firmware.
Any solutions would greatly be appreciated.
Regards,
Don

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