| To find out which
resources are in use by the devices attached to your system,
look in the System Device Manager.
Familiarize yourself with the System Device Manager page
- you are going to visit it many, many times.
In Win9x - (Right click 'My Computer',
click 'Properties', click 'Device Manager' tab).
This example uses Win9x Device Manager
as an example (See below)
Double click the 'Computer' icon in this
window to see how resources have been allocated at a glance.
In the example below you can clearly
see the REALmagic Hollywood Plus card sharing IRQ 5 with
the Sound card.
It's a good idea to note which
resources are being used by the devices in your system
before you add new hardware.
You can then refer to the original
list to identify if the operating system has changed any
of them when the new device was added.
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Resolving Hardware Conflicts