- Prolific Usb To Serial Windows 10 Not Working
- Prolific Usb Serial Windows 10 Driver
- Prolific Usb To Serial Windows 10 Problem
How to change the COM port for a USB Serial adapter on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 PL-2303 family chipset for widest possible compatibility. Microsoft signed drivers for 32/64-bit Windows 10, 8.1, 8, Vista, and XP, drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 through 10.12 including Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra. For Prolific USB VID_067B&PID_2303 and PID_2304 Only - Includes User Manual, Driver Release Notes, CheckChipVersion Tool, Windows Driver Certification - Installer supports silent install (add '/s' parameter when running program) NOTE: Windows 8/8.1/10 are NOT supported in PL-2303HXA and PL-2303X EOL chip versions. Prolific USB-Serial I've previously had this working on my system but, for whatever reason, it's no longer being recognised by my mapping software when I attempt to transfer routes to my GPS. As you can see the driver is installed but with an exclamation mark to indicate a problem.
Hi,
I'm afraid that there is no solution...
There is lot's of people reporting problems with W10 and Prolific devices (based on popular PL2303 adapter).
Myself, I've the same problems with scrolling LED Badges, and USB to COM dongles. All this devices use a PL2303 to provide a connection to an USB port, but inside, they are RS232-like interface build (and appear as a COM port in your operating system). When you plug the device into USB, it is well recognized by W10 and it try to load the Prolific driver. This work fine, but looking at the configuration panel, you will then notice that there is an error code 10 and the driver is not working properly.
Of course, you can try to manually update the driver at Prolific site:
But, look carefully on this page and you will read an important notice in RED :
Windows 8/8.1/10 are NOT supported in PL-2303HXA and PL-2303XEOL (End Of Life) chip versions.
Prolific Usb To Serial Windows 10 Not Working
Prolific Usb Serial Windows 10 Driver
This is clear: if your device is using an old chip version of PL2303, the drivers not works with W10 (and W8).
As many people, you probably upgrade directly from W7 to W10, and sure, don't know that this problem was already present with W8. It's a shame from Prolific to not support this devices, because they are still used (my LED badges are less than a year old, and use EOL PL-2303 HX). Prolific's guys are fun when they said : 'Prolific recommends to use PL-2303HXD (HX Rev D) or PL2303TA chip.' . Hey, but I can't do that myself !!!
Prolific Usb To Serial Windows 10 Problem
I don't want to send my devices to trash because they are too old (less than a year !) to be supported by W10.
May be, a solution will be to use the old W7 drivers version into W10. Not tested... I will try...