Installing Firewire printer under Vista

[Aeronut]

My Epson Stylus Pro 4000 was working fine on my firewire port under XP. Now that I've installed Vista, the driver doesn't seem to see my firewire port at all. Any idea how I get this printer working again?

[Kosherpaparazzi]

Maybe there is a new Vista driver.

p.s. Welcome to the Camel.

[zero rc]

i was thinking the same thing. so i went to the microsoft web-site and started poking around. what a pita!! and im not talking aanimal rights or delicious flat bread!!)
here is the link where i got tired and gave up, at least you can start off at square #2.
Windows Vista Help: Find and install printer drivers

[digitalzed]

Go to the Epson site, not MS. Epson has Vista drivers for download.

[zero rc]

yeah, normally i would go straight to the epson site too, so i assumed the OP would have checked there first. what i was looking for was recently a friend said theere was a feature in vista called emulation mode where it would work almost like XP. the OP mentioned that the printer was running fine with Xp so i decided to give it a go.

[Aeronut]

Thanks for the welcome and help chaps! I already found the Vista driver on the Epson site and have installed that, but it wants to auto-detect the printer and this doesn't seem to happen with Firewire for some reason. I can go into printer properties and change the port, but IEEE1394 (Firewire) isn't listed. I know I had a similar problem installing under XP and had to call Epson Technical Support about it - the solution was blindingly simple as I recall, but I simply can't recall what it actually was! If I only hadn't lost so many grey cells!

[notsotechie]

turn off printer and computer,turn printer on then turn on computer.
if not detected the go in to the bios odepends on your mainboard or make most usuassly hit del key just before it start to load uo and check for intergraded setting then see if the 1394 is enabled or not
best to my opinion
also you can check the device manager if it there then it should detected it if not the it is not turned on in the bios.

[Aeronut]

Notso - Thanks. The solution WAS in device manager, but not the mainboard settings. The Epson driver installs another device, called 'Epson IEEE1394 device' This had a ! against it, so I instructed Windows to update the driver, which it did eventually and, after a reboot, it all works!