Is It Bad To Have Hardware Connected While Running An O/S That Does Not Support It?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by superstar, Jul 28, 2006.

  1. superstar

    superstar Major-Superstar

    I have two hard drives, and I use winxp on one. I only connect one hard drive at a time. When I disconnect my xp hard drive and connect my win98 hard drive everything is fine. I am just wondering one thing. I have an audigy sound card on my motherboard that is not supported by win98se. So it does not work when I boot win98se. It not being supported does'nt matter to me. What does is if I am damaging it because it is not being used by the o/s and I am leaving it connected while I use the o/s. This way I will know if I am harming hardware that is connected to the mobo but not in use (not supported in o/s) while I am using an o/s.
     
  2. Wyatt_Earp

    Wyatt_Earp MajorGeek

    Nope, you're fine. You are not damaging any hardware by leaving it connected.
     
  3. superstar

    superstar Major-Superstar

    Is'nt electricity just rushing through the unused hardware? Well I mean if you tell me that it has no effect on it again than I guess that was the main answer after all.

    Thx
     
  4. rogvalcox

    rogvalcox MajorGeek

    Re: Is It Bad To Have Hardware Connected While Running An O/S That Does Not Support I

    Don't mean to be repeating Wyatt, but if you are not concerned about the sound card not functioning in Win 98, then just pretend it isn't even there!!

    Roger
     

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