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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">On 06-Dec-14 13:14, John
LaMartina wrote:</p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Yes,
It sounds like what you experienced is described in
FAQ #2 at <b><i><u><span
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href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php</a></span></u></i></b><br>
This is a very common issue.<br>
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The driver does not follow the cable. If the cable is
moved to a different COM port, Windows will now load
the newest driver it finds.<br>
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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">Well, yes of course I
had studied the linked page(s) quite closely, and followed them
precisely.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">But I never said
anything about ‘drivers following cables.’ In fact I only ever
used a single USB port in all my attempts.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">What I actually said was
that ‘Windows updates the driver the instant the cable is
plugged in.’ Regardless of port, the user needs to roll back the
driver (backlevel it), overriding Windows auto-update, in order
to make the process work.</p>
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this occurs, you will need to load Prolific driver
3.2.0.0 to the new USB slot</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">I disagree with you
here, John. Plugging the cable into any slot <em>where you have
not specifically rolled back the driver level</em> will
recreate the problem again. I know this for fact since it
happened to me at least thrice last evening. (I tried the
Miklor download drivers and failed, and the supplied 'factory'
drivers twice -- one failure at the instant of diagnosis, and
one success.)<br>
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<div class="WordSection1">Anyway, glad to hear you got it
working<br>
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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">The Miklor information
was ‘guidance’ but certainly not ‘directions’. With persistence,
and a lifetime as a computer professional, I managed to figure
it out in about an hour. A normal “computer layperson” might
never arrive at that solution. I still firmly believe that the
Wiki page should be updated — if only to include more current
Windows 8/8.1 methods.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">But, I’ll leave that to
the admin. This particular “Wiki” isn’t “wik-able.”</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px ! important;">73 de WZ9U</p>
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