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I have an ISA device which I want to use under Windows 10. It was working in Windows XP but now the customer wants to upgrade their hardware and Windows. I found this motherboard (MS-98A9) which features a legacy ISA slot.

In the device manager I see PCI standard ISA bridge device loaded under System device. But I can't find the ISA device I connected to the ISA slot.

Apparently this is because ISA devices are not plug-and-playable, am I correct?

How can I make my ISA device accessible to Windows 10? Do I need to provide custom INF files/drivers?

arminb
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    It would definitely help if you supply more information regarding the ISA device. What type of device is it, and what make and model is it? – LPChip Jul 02 '18 at 13:53
  • It is a custom ISA device our company manufactured back then. It's basically an I/O device. – arminb Jul 02 '18 at 13:57
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    As ISA devices usually use fixed I/O (port) or memory ranges, I am 99% sure you need to write a custom device driver which reserves those ranges, and does the low-level communication (because they won't be accessible from user space). So "Windows 10 write custom device driver" is the first thing I'd google... – dirkt Jul 02 '18 at 14:18
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    http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isar.html How about this adapter? – cybernard Jul 02 '18 at 14:33

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