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With thousands of devices that work with Windows operating systems, it is practically impossible to describe all scenario specific solutions. What remains is to describe a strategy that will help you identify and resolve the problem.
The first step is to determine that the problem is really a hardware conflict at the OS level and [...]

A wide range of problems may be causing the above and other symptoms. Assuming that the hardware is not defective and has been installed correctly, at the operating system level the problems can be broadly classified as follows:

There could be a resource allocation (IRQ/memory address) conflict. Two devices are allocated the same IRQ/memory address space.Usually, [...]

A hardware conflict may occur when you add a new device to your system. In some instances, this conflict will not cause any problem, and depending on the operating system you may not even be aware that such a conflict exists. Typical symptoms of hardware conflicts include:

The operating system may freeze frequently
The new [...]

Hardware devices can conflict with each other due to a variety of reasons. Every hardware device installed must be allocated a set of operating system (Windows) resources to operate correctly. These resources include IRQ, DMA (Direct Memory Access), I/O port addresses and memory resources. Some of these resources will be shared by more than one [...]