PCI Parallel EEP Driver for W7

[keane49]

Some time ago I purchased a Lava parallel PCI port card. I'm finally installing the port in an HP window 7 home premium 64 bit computer. My goal is to be able to use an older (legacy) 24 pin dot matrix wide carriage printer with this computer, but I can find no driver with the cd that came with it or on your website. I see adds for some from 3rd party venders, but there is much caution for them about malware etc. 

Do you have a driver for this item that will work with windows 7 64 bit. 

[LavaSupport]

The drivers for all of our cards are located on our website and can be downloaded from the link below:

Lava_2014_07_15.zip

Let me know if you're having any issues with the installation of the card and I will do my best to assist.

- Lava Support

[keane49]

Thank you for your reply, but I still don't find the driver for your Parallel-PCI  card. I downloaded the zip and see in the read-me that it says that Parallel PCI is supported for Win 7 64 bit, but I don't see a driver that says that or a set-up utility for the same. 

I'll admit I have very limited computer skills, but I thought there might be a " click here to set up the driver " and a driver clearly labled for the PCI running  win 7 ,    NOT the PCI-E. 

[LavaSupport]

Our card need to be detected by Windows device manager in order to be installed in the system, therefore there is no need for a "setup utility".

Is the device currently listed in the Device Manager under "Ports (COM & LPT)"? Or do you have entries in the Device Manager with a yellow exclamation point?

- LAVA Support

[keane49]

In the devise Mgr under Devises it's listed as PCI Parallel Port and has a yellow !

When I click on that I get " PCI Bus 1 Devise 10  fuction 0 "

DRIVER STATUS :
" Drivers for this devise are not selected for this devise,  to find driver click update driver "

That sounds encouraging, but how will I know which driver to select? When I have the drivers downloaded will it automatically know which to use? 

[LavaSupport]

By pointing the device manager to the root of the extracted drivers folder Windows will be able to match the correct driver to your card. Windows will only install a driver that has made a positive match, so you won't need to worry about that.

- LAVA Support