LaserMaster no longer has any of the Controller cards. If you have one that has failed, your only hope is to find a used one. Since the printer itself and the cable can be serviced but the card cannot, you should treat the card with care as it's worth it's weight in gold for those people who value their WinPrinters.

The printer interface card uses any available ISA slot in the computer. ISA slots are being phased out and newer computers may only have one, if any. There are still aftermarket motherboards with ISA slots being manufactured, although these may start disappearing after 2001. The Controller card is not Plug n Play, so you'll have to configure it manually and you may need to trick Windows too as the operating system will not recognize that the card is present until the drivers are installed. This can be an issue if you already have many cards installed, one of which may be using the resources that the WinPrinter card needs. I typically install only the video card and the WinPrinter card first. After the WinPrinter is up and running, I'll install the other Plug n Play cards. Installing the WinPrinter card last will likely create resource conflicts but there is a way to free up these resources first.

If you have other I/O cards installed, you will want to check Device Manager for possible conflicts. The WinPrinter I/O card normally has the jumpers set to the default Interrupt 10 and Address 140-147. The following steps will show how you can check for free resources, and free up those needed for the WinPrinter. These steps assume you want to use IRQ 10, and I/O 140-147. See below for all the possible configurations you can use.

1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel, and double-click the System icon.


2. Click the Device Manager tab, and double click on "Computer".


3. You'll see a list of interrupts ranging from 00 to 15. See if any devices are using IRQ 10, or Input/Output 0140-0147. If any devices are using either of these resources, then you will need to reserve them for the Winprinter.

To reserve IRQ 10 and I/O 140-147:

1. Click on the Reserve Resources tab and add IRQ 10 and I/O 0140 to 0147.


2. Click OK out of Device Manager and shut the computer down.


3. Set the jumpers on the Controller card to **IRQ 10** and **I/O 140**, and install the card. (for I/O 140, set both jumpers towards the socket side of the card)


4. Restart the computer.

Any PnP devices that were using the needed WinPrinter resources should now have been re-assigned to other resouces. Check Device Manager to insure that your changes did not cause conflicts with other devices. Follow the same steps now to un-reserve IRQ 10 and I/O 140-147, but do NOT reboot. Install the WinPrinter software, then reboot and print a test page.

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The Winprinter Controller card can make use of several different resource configurations:

Available Interrupts:	Available I/O Addresses:
IRQ 10	0140 - 0147
IRQ 11	0180 - 0187
IRQ 12	0240 - 0247
IRQ 15	0280 - 0287

You can use any combination of IRQ and I/O, just be sure that the resources you want to use are already free or take the above steps to free them. On newer computers, IRQ 15 must be used for the IDE controller so this one is not really an option. However, you should be able to free up one of the other IRQ's. The I/O Address is usually not as big an issue to reserve as IRQ's, so any of those options should work fine.