Unsupported Devices Under Windows95

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ: Here is a list of devices not supported by Windows95. If you have a device that is listed here, and it didn't come with native Windows95 drivers, you'll have to get a driver from the manufacturer. If the manufacturer doesn't have it yet, you most likely cannot use this device with Windows95. The devices listed here are not necessarily incompatible with Windows95; they just aren't explicitly supported. If you haven't yet upgraded to Windows95, you might want to put it off until all needed drivers are available.

If you're having trouble getting a device working with Windows95, you'll be surprised how a product like Windows95 that has been in testing for two years and has had more hype than any other has still taken some companies completely by surprise. It's not too helpful how Microsoft is happy to let you know which devices are compatible with Windows95, but won't tell you which ones aren't. Check back often, and reload if your browser requires you to do so, as this page is frequently updated. If you have any devices to add to this list, don't hesitate to send email.

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Scanners & Cameras

Artec ViewScan Grayscale Scanner

Avision AVscan AV660 Plus Scanner - no plans for native drivers

Advanced Vision Research AVR 8800/Clx and AVR 3000/CL Scanners

Canon IX-4015, IX-4025, and IX-3010 Scanners - drivers available through Canon

Dest PCscan 3000 Scanner

Envisions 400 Dpi 256-Grayscale Hand-Held Scanner

Fujix DP100 Digital Camera

Genius B105 B/W, GSC104 Handheld, Easy Scan Color Pro Handheld, and ScanMate Color Scanners

Genius Color Page I Scanner - drivers available from Genius' BBS: (909) 923-8454

Hewlett Packard Scanjets IIc, IIcx, IIp, 3p, and 3c - drivers and 32-bit software available here

IBM Easy Options Full Page Scanner - driver available from IBM's BBS

Logitech Scanman 256, Scanman 32, Scanman Color Scanners - drivers available through Logitech

Microtek ScanMaker IIXE and 35T Scanners

Mustek (Microtek) MS-2300C and MFS-6000CX Scanners - drivers available from Microtek at (800) 654-4160, or here

Mustek GS400-L Handheld Grayscale Scanner (PC Card)

Mustek MARS 105 Grayscale Scanner

OBM 720x300 Gray-scale Scanner

Plustex Scan FX Scanner

Polaroid SprintScan 35

Relisys Avec Color 2400 Scanner - drivers available here

Sharp JX-320 Scanner

Sicos Color Page Scanner

Tamarack ArtiScan 6000C Color Scanner - drivers available here

Trust Imagery 2400SP Scanner

Visioneer Paper Port Scanner (software version 3.0 fixes problem)

Printers

Brother HL10h Laser Printer

Brother HL630 Printer - try drivers for the Brother HL-6; driver also avialable through Brother

Brother P-Touch PC Printer - no network support, and no plans for a native driver

Canon BJC-210 Printer - drivers available through Canon

Canon CJ-10 (scanner / printer / fax / copier)

DEC Colorwriter 520ic - no plans for a native driver

Epson Actionlaser 1100 - no plans for a native driver; try the included drivers for the HP Laserjet III

Epson Actionlaser 1400 - no plans for a native driver; try the included drivers for the 1600

Epson Stylus Pro Color Printer - drivers available here

Hewlett Packard Deskjets 660c, 660cse, and 885c - drivers available from Hewlett Packard, and shipped with new models

Hewlett Packard Draftmaster Plotter

IBM Model 5577

Lexmark Medley series (scanner / printer / fax / copier)

NEC Silentwriter SuperScript 610 - drivers available through NEC

Nikon Coolprint

Okidata Doc-It (scanner / printer / fax / copier)

Seiko Labelprinter Pro

Xerox - all models

Tape Drives (more information)

All tape drives connected to a SCSI or IDE adapter, or an accelerator card*

All DAT, QIC Wide, Irwin AccuTrak, and Travan tape drives*

Most tape drives made by Archive, Irwin, Mountain, and Summit*

Conner C250MQ tape drive (made by Archive)*

IOmega Parallel Port drives*

CD and Removable Drives (more information from Microsoft)

ACER 525E CD-ROM Drive (no audio CD support)

Argosy CD952 CD-ROM Drive (with PCMCIA interface) - contact: Expert, Inc., Fresh Meadows NY

Azetech CD-ROM Drive (not Aztech)

CD-ROM Changers (jukeboxes) have an irritating problem.

Dolphin 9001 CD-ROM Drive (no audio CD support)

Funai CD-ROM Drive with Sony Interface Card - drivers available here

GoldStar GCD-R420B CD-ROM Drive

IOMega 21MB SCSI Floptical Drive - no plans for a native driver

IOMega Parallel-port ZIP drive (SCSI version fully supported) - drivers available through Iomega

Mediavision Fusion 16 CD-ROM Kit

Microsystems XC-200II CD-ROM Drive

Mitsumi 4X IDE Drive (included with Diamond kits)

Orchid CDS-3110 CD-ROM Drive

Panasonic LF-1000 CD-ROM Drive

Portable Solutions Autobahn CD-ROM Drive

Philips CM205MS, CM206, and CM207 CD-ROM Drives - drivers available at ftp.winsite.com

Pioneer DR-U124x 4X CD-ROM Drive drivers available here

Sanyo CDR-H94A 2X CD-ROM Drive

Sanyo CDR-254S CD-ROM Drive (Media Vision MV2200 Multimedia Kit)

Sony PRD-150 Portable CD-ROM DiscMan - drivers available from Sony

Teac Super Quad 4X CD-ROM Drive - drivers available here or here

Texel DM-5024 CD-ROM Drive

Wearnes 2X CD-ROM drive - no plans for a native driver

Yamaha CDR100 and CDR102 CD-ROM Recorders

Sound Cards

AcerMagic S20 and S23 Sound Cards - drivers available through Acer

Advanced Gravis Sound Cards - drivers available through Gravis

Aztech WaveRider 32 Sound Card - drivers available through Aztech

Boca Research all-in-one Modem/Sound/Voice Card, non-PnP (included with some Ambra systems) - drivers available through Boca

Cardinal Technologies DSP16 Sound Card

Diamond Sonic Sound (with ARIA DSP chip)

Hardware MPEG Component of IBM Aptiva MWave Card

Logitech Soundman Wave Sound Card - driver (wave95.exe) available through Logitech

Media Vision Pro/Premium 3D Sound Cards, SCSI adapter

Miro Sound PCM 1 Pro Sound Card - driver available through Miro

Nova 16AE Sound Card

Oak Technology Mozart Sound Card - drivers available through Oak Technology

Orchid CDS-3110 Sound Card

Reveal SC400 4R Sound Card - try drivers for the Microsoft Sound System, or Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16

Toptek Golden Sound Card Pro 2 - no plans for a native driver

Turtle Beach PCMCIA Audio Advantage Sound Card

Zoltrix Audio Plus 3200 Sound Card - try installing the DOS drivers

Video, Video Capture, and TV Cards

Acer PCI PV100 Video Card

Acumos AVGA2 512k SuperVGA Card

ATI Video-IT! Video Capture Board - drivers avalable through ATI

Creative Labs Video Blaster, Video Spigot

DFI's WG9000VL Video Card

Diamond Speedstar VGA 1 MB, 16 bit Video Card

Diamond Viper PCI SE, Viper Pro Video - drivers avalable here

Genoa Phantom 64 Video Pro

Guillemeot International MaxiTV TV Card

IIT Xgraphic Video Card - no plans for a native driver

Jazz Tech Jakarta MPEG Video Card - drivers available through Jazz

Matrox Impression Plus Video Card - drivers available through Matrox

Matrox MGA Millenium - drivers available through Matrox

Media Vision Pro-Graphics 1024 and 1280 Video Cards - try the Cirrus Logic drivers

Media Vision Pro-Movie Spectrum - no plans for a native driver

Miro Crystal Video Cards 12TD, 20TD, 10SD, and 20SD - drivers available through Miro.

Oak Technologies Mozart Video Card - Try the Acer S20 or S22 drivers

Radius Firestorm 64 (previously by AVermedia) - Try the S3 drivers in 16-bit or 24-bit mode, but not 8-bit (256 color) mode

Reveal 500 TV Card - drivers available from Reveal

S3-based boards, otherwise unsupported - Try downloading VL41W950.ZIP from the Jabor BBS at 408-263-8529

Trident PCI 9320, 938x, 9440, and 968x Video Cards - drivers available: here, here, or here

Trident 8900 Cl Video Card (true color mode) - drivers at Trident's BBS: (415) 691-1016

UMAX MaxMedia MR Video Capture Board

Video-7 Mirage Video Card - drivers available at WinSite

Western Digital Paradise Bali-32 Video Card - drivers available here

Pointing Devices

Access-Bus Mouse

Acecat 5x5 and Acecat II Graphics Tablets

Calcomp Drawingboard III

Dextra Tablet

Genius Graphics Tablets

Genius Mouse

Kensington Mouse with driver version 4.21 or earlier - update available from Kensington: 800-535-4242

Synaptics Touchpad

SummaSketch II Tablet - drivers available from Summagraphics

Communications and Networking

Any AppleTalk devices or networks

Creative Labs Modem Blaster 19.2

D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet Card (DE-650 Series) - 'blue' cards are incompatible; 'silver' cards require drivers from D-Link

EFA Info Express Ethernet Card

E-Tech Bullet PC1414UX Fax/Modem (aka Monterey)

IBM PCMCIA 5250 Emulation Adapter

Intel EtherExpress-Pro 100B Network Card, promiscuous mode operation not supported

Intel TokenExpress-Pro Network Card

Maxtech 288 modem

NE4100 PCMCIA Network Card

Practical Peripheral pm288mt II v.34 Modem - driver (MDMPP.ZIP) available from Practical

Racal Interlan NI5210 Network Card

Tiara LanCard 10-BaseT 16-bit Network Card

Other Devices

Always Technologys AL7000 SCSI Card

Cardinal 14,400 Modem - drivers available here

Gateway 2000 Crystal Scan 1024NI Monitor - large gap shown on left side of monitor

Hard drives using Ontrack's Disk Manager, version 6 or earlier - update available from OnTrack or Western Digital

Most Parallel-Port Storage Devices

Most VLB IDE Controllers - use a plain $10 ISA controller instead

NCR 53C80 and 53C400A SCSI Controllers

VIA Tech Dual PCI IDE Controller

Vision VL-BUS I/O-EIDE Controller - obtain driver for the WinBond WB83769f controller

Notes

If you're trying to get a device to work, check out Obtaining Technical Support and Drivers.

If you've found that your unsupported hardware is now nothing more than an expensive paperweight, you might be able to sell it at the Online Used Computer Swap.

Many of the sound cards here claim to be fully Soundblaster-compatible (Creative Labs developed Windows95 drivers for their Soundblaster a year ago). This is yet another reason to avoid the "clones" - if you want Soundblaster-compatible, buy a Soundblaster.

If your video card is not supported, there may be another, similar card that is. Look for other cards that use the same chipset, or consider investing in a new, fast, inexpensive, brand-name video card.

If you have a SCSI CD-ROM drive, it will work with Windows95. Something to think about if you're looking for a new CD-ROM drive... (more information from Microsoft)

For the tape drives noted with *, you'll need third-party software to use them with Windows95, not a device driver. Note that non-Windows95 third-party software will not support long filenames.