Rich, Thanks for the reply, it's sounds like it could be some of my issue's. I have done so many things to this computer, mach and everything else, I am not even sure what I have done. I am desperate right now.
Hood, thank you for your reply as well, the pictures I loaded here are what I have since uninstalling everything and reloading it. It seems that something may not be quite right here. Is it possible I have not dumped & reloaded everything properly. If I have done it correctly, then something is wrong and not sure what I need to do to fix it. Colin
Rich, to answer your question about the card it is; NetMos, dualport, PCI nm9815cv, spp/epp/ecp mode, multi I/O controller card made in china. Hope this is enough info. as it's about all that is on the box. In the instruction sheet, it said nothing about Vista however, on the CD that comes with, it shows something about Vista 32&64 somewhere in the file. I'm not sure if it is compatible. It took some playing around with the ports just to get the printer to go through the printing motions. It never did print (with ink anyway) what I sent to the printer (Ink Cartridge was old and crusty) but it did respond and go through the process as if it did. I replaced the cartridge and with all the excitement of "Wow I actually made some improvement" forgot to remove the tape from it and wedged it right on in there and clamped it down (TIGHT). Once I figured out why this piece of junk would not still print, I removed the tape and still would not lay down the ink. So, I don't know if I broke it or not.
I certainly would be grateful if you could investigate this port to see if it is compatible.