[Elecraft] K3 not Seen By Computer after OS upgrade

[Richard Lawn]

But there is no characteristic windows system chime when I plug in the K3
cable nor is anything shown in the device manager, except the other parts
in use.

Rick
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:23 PM Dick Dievendorff <dick at elecraft.com> wrote:

> What I did the first time on several different Windows 10 systems was plug
> in the USB cable and waited (for several minutes) for Windows to find the
> required device driver from Windows Update.  I've never had to install a
> device driver from The FTDI site.
>
> YMMV...
> Dick, K6KR
>
>
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> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Richard Lawn
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:56
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 not Seen By Computer after OS upgrade
>
> I bit the bullet and upgrade from Win 7 to 10 this morning in an effort to
> address some issues I just couldn't live with any longer. All was fine
> until
> I plugged the USB cable from my K3 into the computer and nothing. No
> recognition what so ever. I went to the Elecraft site and downloaded and
> installed FTDI and Prolific drivers though I think it needed FTDI. Still
> nothing. I'm puzzeled though as I downloaded two different FTDI driver
> packages. One was an install package and the other is a folder with no
> obvious setup file for installation. The folder is labeled CDM v2.12.26
> WHQL
> Certified. That's probably the one I needed to install but am at a loss in
> how to do that. Some advice would be appreciated.
>
> Rick, W2JAZ
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