Jaxgol

Hi,

USB to serial drivers for most serial RS232 devices. Download drivers for most types of USB to serial adapters and converters.

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.

• Download the latest drivers for your USB Serial Port to keep your Computer up-to-date.
• Download the latest drivers for your USB Serial Port to keep your Computer up-to-date.

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 !!!

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...

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The Serial Adapter /Serial Converter - Generally

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A serial adapter, also referred to as a serial converter is a small electronic device which can convert one type of data signal into a different type of data signal. The difference between an adapter and a converter generally is that an adapter usually only adapts the physical interface of a device to match a different type of physical interface of a different device whereas a converter converts the actual data stream between two devices. Therefore we will use the term 'converter' in the following.

A serial converter typically converts data between either RS232, RS485, RS422, USB or TCP signals, however some converter designs have other special conversion features. Even the RS232 standard is an older communication protocol it is still used by many modern devices in both business and consumer markets and is also often used for personal and office devices. Actually many new devices designed today are designed with a RS232 serial port, often because RS232 is a very robust and reliable protocol which is fairly easy for program writes to integrate into their system.

Serial converters are used a lot in industrial applications as a way to communicate with factory machinery or to interface with test equipment, however in one particular area the serial converter has also become very useful for consumers who need a serial port in their personal computer. Most new computers today does not have a RS232 COM port which makes the use of a USB to serial converter useful for connecting equipment such as serial printers, scanners, scales and GPS devices, but also many types of business, office and laboratory equipment. A USB to serial converter typically can convert USB to either RS232, RS485 or RS422 signals.

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