accessories development speed, Windows system upgrade speed is also accelerating, so that some hardware that is eliminated but has useful value, because the manufacturer does not update the driver in time, it is difficult to Used in the operating system. So is there any way to make these hardware work in the new operating system without new drivers? Operating system compatibility method
As you know, in new operating systems such as WinXP, you can run some programs in compatibility mode, and running some old drivers in compatibility mode can make them more stable in the new operating system. Example: An old F-1210 parallel port CCD scanner that does not support PNP. Look at the Setup configuration file in the driver package and find the following two lines: SOURCE16NAME=F-1210/16 V4.07, SOURCE32NAME=F-1210/32 V4.07. In addition, the F-1210 scanner specification says it supports Windows NT 4.0, which concludes that the driver should support Windows XP with a 32-bit kernel. Then run the driver installation command Setup, then open the AOC scanner F-1210 program group, open the "Compatibility" tab in the "Scanner UtilitIEs" property dialog box, select "Run this program in compatibility mode", and then open The drop-down list selects Windows98/Me and works fine. Driver Alternate Method
The alternative method is to study the hardware driver similar to the hardware that can be driven in the new operating system, or the similar model and design inheritance hardware, which can replace the old hardware. The driver is enabled to run in the new operating system. Example: The HP DeskJet 200 printer is a product of HP in 1995. The driver for this printer is only Windows 95/98/Me. Although the Windows XP system can discover the DJ200 printer, it always prompts that the driver cannot be found. Open the HP DeskJet 200 V7. .1 driver installation configuration file, observed that many of the DLL files are HPDeskJet 400 printers, indicating that the two drivers are closely related, so open the "Add Printer" wizard, install the driver named "HP DeskJet400 MonoChrome" On, everything is ok. Driver Hard Installation Method
If you only have a Windows 3.X driver, you can hardly load the driver into the system under DOS with the help of the Windows 98/ME compatible 16-bit program. Example: A PII computer has been using a soft sound card integrated with the motherboard, and the effect is not good. Therefore, an old-fashioned ISA sound card using the OPTI931 chip was purchased in the second-hand market. It only supports DOS and Windows 3.1, and does not support plug and play. Then boot the system to a pure DOS environment, then run the Install command in the sound card driver disk, point the driver installation path to the Windows 98 folder. Surprisingly, the computer speakers sounded a pleasant sound after restarting the system. Because this method installs the Windows 3.1 driver and does not conform to the Windows 98 driver specification, although it is hard to install to Windows 98, the device manager There is no sound video and game control at all, and there is no small speaker in the system clock area. But it doesn't matter, because we want sounds after all!