is it a Windows 64 or 32 issue? On 11 April 2011 16:08, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote:
> Folks, I’ve been helping a friend migrate from a 4 year old box to a snazzy > new one we built last week. > > > > He has an EPSON Stylus 700 printer which plugs into the 25-pin male printer > port on the old box, but the new motherboard doesn’t have those old types of > plugs, just USBs. He either buys a new printer, buys a Centronix-to-USB > cable or buys a parallel port card. We did the latter cheap option because > the local shop had a $12 Ritmo 1-port parallel card available. > > > > Now I can’t get Windows 7 to recognise the card. It came with a driver CD > which only goes as far as Vista and an attempt to install that driver gives > a helpful message like “Installation failed”. Web searches produced one > possible driver from a different brand, but that install produces a version > rejection message. > > > > Device Manager shows the parallel port card with an exclamation mark. > Attempts to upgrade the driver from here always fail. Attempts to locate the > driver INF file also fail. I can also see COM1 and LPT1 listed in Device > Manager, but I presume they don’t actually exist. > > > > I’m confused and out of ideas. Any ideas anyone? > > > > Greg > -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
