Subject: 4. Making your hardware work

     * 4.1. Device Manager basics
     * 4.2. Does Plug & Play work on systems without a Plug & Play
       BIOS?
     * 4.3. How do I make this card work...
          + 4.3.1. ...sound card
               o 4.3.1.1. Sound Blaster (tm), SB Pro, SB16, AWE32 (tm)
               o 4.3.1.2. Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play
               o 4.3.1.3. Clone sound cards listed with Windows 95
               o 4.3.1.4. Clone sound cards that need DOS drivers to
                 run
               o 4.3.1.5. sound card NOT listed with Windows 95
          + 4.3.2. ...network card
               o 4.3.2.1. card listed with Windows 95
               o 4.3.2.2. card NOT listed with Windows 95
               o 4.3.2.3. Using old ODI drivers with Win95
               o 4.3.2.4. Using old NDIS2 drivers with Win95
               o 4.3.2.5. Using some DMA network cards on machines
                 with more than 16 MB
          + 4.3.3. ...scanner card
          + 4.3.4. ...caching IDE or caching SCSI card 
          + 4.3.5. More on setting DMA properties to make old cards
            work
     * 4.4. How do I make this drive work...
          + 4.4.1. ...CD-ROM drives
               o 4.4.1.1. Using DOS drivers (Avoid at all costs!)
          + 4.4.2. …Flash PC card or hardcard for a notebook
            computer? 
          + 4.4.3. ...tape drives
               o 4.4.3.1. SCSI tape drives
               o 4.4.3.2. Non-SCSI tape drives (Floppy, parport,
                 FC-20, whatever)
          + 4.4.4. ...removable drive
     * 4.5. How do I make this input device work...
          + 4.5.1. ...un-listed mouse
               o 4.5.1.1. How can I use the middle mouse button on
                 Logitech (or similar) mice?
          + 4.5.2. ...graphics tablet
          + 4.5.3. ...MIDI keyboard 
     * 4.6. How do I fix hardware conflicts?
     * 4.7. How do I get a list of what card is using what IRQ? (or
       whatever)
          + 4.7.1. Help with devices that use IRQ 2 or IRQ 9
     * 4.8. How do I tell Win95 about cards it doesn't have drivers
       for?
     * 4.9. Using "Safe Mode" to fix hardware problems
     * 4.10. Basic ISA Plug & Play theory (Don't bother if you don't
       like details)
     * 4.11. Basic PCI Plug & Play theory (Don't bother also)
     * 4.12. Other PnP theory (SCSI, monitors, printers, PCMCIA, etc)
     * 4.13. Top ten hardware mistakes 
       

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