Some time ago I started a thread in which several people tied to help me get my printer up and running.
It's a legacy dinosaur bullet proof rock solid HP laser 5 printer that I paid a lot for and didn't want to scrap.
When I switched to Win 7 it stopped working.
I got a parallel card from Star tech. Tried that, no joy. Got another parallel card and still no joy.
I tried all sorts of stupid work-arounds Some might even have been smart - who knows but they didn't help. I even reinstalled my OS thinking that maybe the drivers never took in the first place. I was killing myself.
Finally I gave up and tried a VisionTek[FONT="]®[/FONT] Connect[FONT="]™[/FONT] USB 3.0 PCI Express expansion card and a cable to go from the printer to the card.
Prolly any card would do, I chose this one because the price was OK. There was no other reason.
Ya gotta have a 4P power hook up available - the card needs power.
I installed the drivers for the card per the instructions from the CD provided ( Doh~!)
Then Booted the Pc.
Hooked the cable up to the printer and PC
Then on reboot the computer found the expansion card and THEN all by itself ( Sua Sponte so to speak) it found the printer installed the drivers and I was printing right away.
Why didn't I think of this before?
I guess because the parallel card seemed to be the correct solution but it wasn't. Something about the OS and maybe in conjunction with the Asus Mainboard there was just no getting the parallel card to work.
It's a legacy dinosaur bullet proof rock solid HP laser 5 printer that I paid a lot for and didn't want to scrap.
When I switched to Win 7 it stopped working.
I got a parallel card from Star tech. Tried that, no joy. Got another parallel card and still no joy.
I tried all sorts of stupid work-arounds Some might even have been smart - who knows but they didn't help. I even reinstalled my OS thinking that maybe the drivers never took in the first place. I was killing myself.
Finally I gave up and tried a VisionTek[FONT="]®[/FONT] Connect[FONT="]™[/FONT] USB 3.0 PCI Express expansion card and a cable to go from the printer to the card.
Prolly any card would do, I chose this one because the price was OK. There was no other reason.
Ya gotta have a 4P power hook up available - the card needs power.
I installed the drivers for the card per the instructions from the CD provided ( Doh~!)
Then Booted the Pc.
Hooked the cable up to the printer and PC
Then on reboot the computer found the expansion card and THEN all by itself ( Sua Sponte so to speak) it found the printer installed the drivers and I was printing right away.
Why didn't I think of this before?
I guess because the parallel card seemed to be the correct solution but it wasn't. Something about the OS and maybe in conjunction with the Asus Mainboard there was just no getting the parallel card to work.
My Computer
At a glance
ASUS X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s...Intel Core i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E 3.4GHz LGA 2...CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240...ASUS EAH6450 Silent/DI/1GD3(LP) Radeon HD 645...
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home built
- OS
- ASUS X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E 3.4GHz LGA 2011 130W 6-Core
- Motherboard
- ASUS X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
- Memory
- CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS EAH6450 Silent/DI/1GD3(LP) Radeon HD 6450 1GB 64-bit DD
- Sound Card
- onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell lcd 32"
- Hard Drives
- 1tb SATA, 2tb SATA, 500 gig SATA, 500 Gig SATA, 500 Gig IDE
- PSU
- CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Re
- Case
- something colored black
- Cooling
- Cooler Master Seidon 120XL
- Keyboard
- this thing with buttons on it
- Mouse
- a tailed devil
- Internet Speed
- whizzing along
- Antivirus
- KASPERSKY
- Browser
- Firefox. Opra, Explorer.
- Other Info
- I am naked and outside your window shouting Non Sequiturs in a loony high pitched voice.
