- #EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER INSTALL#
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- #EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER PRO#
- #EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER SOFTWARE#
What aggravates the issue is that there are many "Prolific Driver Removal Tools" that do not work properly as well! And Windows 8, 8.1, and Window 10 are set by default to automatically update your drivers without your permission or even notifying you of the update.
#EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER INSTALL#
However, if you didn't have a previous driver installed that worked, you'll have to go through the process of removing any PL-2303 driver installation programs,the actual driver files, and the information (.INF) file BEFORE you are able to successfully install the correct driver. If your adapter was working prior to going to Windows Update, you may be able to "roll back" to the previous installed driver and all will be well once again. Or, you may get no error at all, but your device will not work. There are also some more expensive adapters that are much more likely to have genuine prolific chipsets, unfortunately once the adapter starts to cost $30 or more you may as well spring the $50 for the new VEX programming cable.If one of these Prolific 64-bit drivers gets installed to your computer then your legacy device will no longer work and will issue the generic "Code 10" error.ģ.3.5.122, 3.3.11.152, 3.3.17.203, 3.4.25.218, 3.4.31.231, 3.4.36.247ģ.4.48.272, 3.4.62.293, 3.4.67.325, 3.4.67.333, 3.6.78.350, 3.6.81.357 ROBOTC can use non prolific serial ports, not sure about Eas圜 or PROS, there’s no technical reason why not just that they are trying to make everything streamlined and so search specifically for prolific adapters.
#EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER SOFTWARE#
There are other chipset vendors, most notably FDTI and silabs, these work well but are not recognized as programming adapters by the programming software by default. The problem is that many of the cheap USB-serial adapters can end up with the unauthorized copy of the prolific chipset, you never know until you try them. I replaced some of my bad cables with adapters made by Ativa (sold by office depot) with good success, they don’t need modification and connect properly. Or add an RS232 extension, something like this The only down side is that you have two sets of female screwheads so one has to be ripped off to make it connect. This is the cable we switched to until we ordered a bunch of new cables. One additional benefit of using this adapter is that it is officially supported under Windows 8 as it contains the rev D version of the PL2303 chipset. prolific recommends this part as using an authorized chipset.
So pretty much the same result, any driver after Oct 2008 detects the bad cables and refuses to load.Īnother solution that allows recent drivers is to just replace the USB to serial part of the programming kit but keeping the serial to RJ11 interface. Vista driver that VEX recommends for Windows 8, from VEX wiki Version 3.4.36.247 (this was V1.7 from prolific) Prolific 1.3.0 (also called v1210, MarkO’s from below)
GPS_AllInOne_1013 (This is the same one that Eas圜 includes) No driver included, the driver on is the same as the VEX wiki Version 2.1.35.211 (this was V1.7 from prolific) The works/no works indication refers to the “pirate” PL2303 based cable. The original results are posted here but I’m copying into this thread as well.
#EASYC PROLIFIC USB TO SERIAL DRIVER PRO#
Tests were done using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. About a year ago I posted information indicating which drivers have been shown to work, I’m reposting that information here and also some additional results with recent versions of ROBOTC and Windows 7. The cause of many of these failures are updated prolific drivers detecting that the cables use an unauthorized version of the PL2303 serial to USB chip. There have been more cases of old VEX programming cables apparently failing to work.