Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware Intended For Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 Here are the top five reasons why you may not be able to get your hardware to work with Windows: You have an outdated or buggy driver - get an update from the manufacturer. You're using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, but the device isn't supported in a Windows NT environment (yet). My advice: toss it, because most companies is unlikly to add NT support for their older products. Is it a USB device? You need at least Windows 95 OSR2 (not the original release of Win95) to support USB. What's more, most USB devices require at least Windows 98 to work. Investigate device manager for any hardware conflicts. Lastly, make sure it's plugged-in / turned-on / connected properly. RTFM! :) Written by: Annoyances.org Last updated: Saturday, August 11, 2001 Care to discuss this article with other Windows users? Select your operating system here, and click Continue to post your question. - Choose your OS -Windows 7Windows VistaWindows Server 2003Windows XPWindows 2000Windows MeWindows 98Windows 95 Previous discussions about this article: (open a message to see applicable responses, if any) [Windows 95] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Mike Tilley: Sunday, August 26, 2001) [Windows 95] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Peter Steirer: Friday, September 21, 2001) [Windows ME] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Clif Mann: Thursday, October 11, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Tom Bohr: Thursday, November 8, 2001) [Windows XP] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Doug Pinion: Sunday, January 13, 2002) [Windows ME] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (WILLIE HAMMOND: Thursday, January 24, 2002) [Windows 2000] Windows 2000NT won't 'see' digital camera attached (sal.d: Thursday, April 25, 2002) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Tomas Vera: Monday, June 17, 2002) [Windows 98] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (T Reynolds: Thursday, September 26, 2002) [Windows XP] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Brad: Friday, October 25, 2002) [Windows 98] One more win98 hardware conflict... involving ndis.vxd (Paul: Tuesday, November 5, 2002) [Windows XP] New hardware Printer Driver not working in XP (Neil: Tuesday, January 7, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (amylynn: Friday, February 7, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (chris r: Monday, June 2, 2003) [Windows 98] top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (maria/tinymity777: Friday, July 25, 2003) [Windows 98] deleting winxp while using win 98 (vallimanalan: Tuesday, September 2, 2003) [Windows Me] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (dinah Stuart: Wednesday, December 3, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (MarthaLee: Sunday, June 13, 2004) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Donna: Thursday, October 14, 2004) [Windows XP] Question!!problem in win xp (austin: Friday, March 3, 2006) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Randy: Thursday, July 23, 2009) Return to "Troubleshooting"