Computer guys Windows 8 help please

[Sparky]

And that's what you've tried but it doesn't connect? Have you tried HP software suite that should have come on a disk w the computer? How old is that printer, anyways?

Those plotters are older. It has to be connected via parallel port

[KestrelBike]

Go to control panel --> Devices and Printers --> Add a Printer --> Scroll down to HP --> hit the "Windows Update" button to let the list of HP drivers update/repopulate --> Obviously your Designjet 488CA is not on the list, however I'd try to install either the Designjet 500 drivers. If that doesn't work, you can try random DJ drivers to see if any of them work. Blame HP.

[Sparky]

It is looking for an .INF file

[Gman]

I'm avoiding Vista II (Windows 8). I believe it's a huge mistake and I don't expect Windows 9 to be anything like it. Windows 7 is the new XP.

HP ends support for products after a few years. Technology moves forward and it's difficult to find a computer that still has a parallel interface. Their answer would be to buy a new plotter.

You could try a Vista driver to see if Windows 8 can do anything with it; http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...3-8f4d3ca5acb5

[KestrelBike]

I'm avoiding Vista II (Windows 8). I believe it's a huge mistake and I don't expect Windows 9 to be anything like it. Windows 7 is the new XP.

HP ends support for products after a few years. Technology moves forward and it's difficult to find a computer that still has a parallel interface. Their answer would be to buy a new plotter.

You could try a Vista driver to see if Windows 8 can do anything with it; http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...3-8f4d3ca5acb5

This would be my second suggestion (finding/using a vista driver). When you said it's "looking for a .inf file", did you click "Have Disk"? Don't do that, after doing the "Windows Update" option, click on the driver you want to try, then "Next".

[Gman]

The drivers you get from Windows Update are provided by the OEMs. HP doesn't have one for the OS.

[JohnnyEgo]

If you have Win7 Pro, you can push a copy of XP mode on to Windows 8. As an alternative, you can run XP in virtual with something like VMWare. I was doing this to run an old NEC SS870 printer with a parallel port interface in Windows 7, and some older circuit simulation software. With the later, you can set it up so that it is seamless to the end-user. It's not necessarily complicated to do either, but if you are afraid to mess with your computer, I'd ask a niece/nephew/reasonably tech savvy friend to help you out.

[Squeeze]

Windows 8 sucks balls. That is all.

[KestrelBike]

Windows 8 sucks balls. That is all.

hahah pretty much end of thread right there. I'd pay the $120 or whatever for a win7 license and "downgrade".

[Byte Stryke]

you guys haven't learned the MS rule of Odd/even yet?



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