[ANSWERED] Arduino UNO R3 Windows 10 Can't find correct driver!

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I just got a kit from tomtop with an Uno R3 board.

I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. When connecting the board via USB it shows up in Device Manager as Other Devices/"USB2.0-Serial" and has the warning flag on it.
I've installed a variety of drivers manually from the Arduino/Drivers/arduino.inf and even tried some of the old drivers from the Old_Arduino_Drivers.zip. I've tried:

  • Ardiuno Srl (www.arduino.org) / Arduino Uno
  • Arduino LLC (www.arduino.cc) / Arduino Uno Version 1.2.3.0 [11/24/2015]
  • http://www.arduino.cc / Communications Port (I believe this was from Arduino USBSerial.inf)

The old drivers aren't digitally signed and I have to enter Test Mode boot to install them...
After installed the USB2.0-Serial device in the device manager shows up as Arduino UNO (Com5) as would be expected.

When opening the Serial Monitor from Arduino IDE I get:

Error while setting serial port parameters: 9,600 N 8 1

If I try to upload code to the board I get:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "\\.\COM5": The system cannot find the file specified.

I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried different ports. I even tried the FTDI drivers. Does anyone have an idea what the correct driver for this board should be?

Thanks!

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwir5-289I3YAhUJ1CYKHRQ6DTsQFggwMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsparks.gogo.co.nz%2Fch340.html&usg=AOvVaw04AJnYhnMJNxIf7CQV_fRj

Thats what you need

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The official; drivers for CH340 base clones are here.

Be aware that in Windows 8 or above you may have to turn off "driver signing" to install them.
Unplug the board before installing the driver package.

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Can't speak for the buggy Win 8, but those drivers are fine for Win 10. No need to disable driver signing.

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Thanks so much guys! I used the installer from www.wch.cn and the board works like a charm.
How the heck did you guys know what board this is? Just by experience? There isn't any markings on it that would indicate it's a CH340...

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Pictures say a thousand words...Yours was good enough to spot it right away...

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I make USB to serial adapters with the ch340g all the time there cheap chips but a really good one from my stand point .

I use it to add to my esp boards so I can program without having to hook anything up.

The ch340g worked the best of any chip I've used.

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Glad I thought to send the photo! Really wish the manufacturer would have put some markings on this thing. I mean... geesh. Anyway, up and running well thanks to you guys.

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There was a name on it they grinded it off. I don't even think there is a driver problem with windows 10.
What i mean is window 10 uses it's own driver if you use the serial chip without arduino first you don't need the driver

I no that don't sound right but I use it to program without arduino using lua loader never had to install a driver on 10

Then I one day used my laptop with arduino I had to install driver.

I had a hard drive die I used lualoader first thing I installed and did not need to install for arduino crazy huh.

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@be80be

Once the driver is in it doesn't need to be installed again for any of the CH340/341 devices.
Some versions of the win 10 install are also good enough to work out what is needed too and will get the driver properly.

Only time the driver may be updated is if you use the CREATE editor which gets updates more often than the desktop IDE.

Never needed lualoader either as all my ESP's behave very well.

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I think you missed my point there was no driver install if you used the ch340g without arduino first only if you use arduino ide first did it ask to install. windows 10 has a driver that works out of the box just depends on how you first use the ch340g.
I don't use arduino for the esp I use lua I like it better.

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Being a MS tester and a tester for Arduino has shown me that my response is correct.
The amount of times this question is also asked in the forum backs that up too.

Different types of installs of win 10 can and do provide different responses to driver installs and not just for Arduino but for other hardware too.

As for LUA each to thier own. Tried it and wasn't too keen.

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Microsoft Insider I've been doing that since I first started not talking about Windows 10 neither everyone they ever did

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Talking BEFORE the insider program.

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i have the same, put when trying to install the driver i get: the driver is successfully Pre-installed in advance.

But it dont work:( using win 10

any idess or newer driver?

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@berne.

There are a few seperate issues with windows 10.

A quick search on your part using the forums own search tool should bring those up for you and make a few good suggestions.

As it stands your post is a "me too" but without many details.
For that aspect read the STICKY posts at the top of the relevant forum sections.

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Amazing!! I have one Arduino UNO that worked great. Mi kids's school gave it to us.
Then I bought another one at inventrkits ( inventr.io ). It looks exactly as the first one, but the lights are red and I couldn't send any program to it.

I downloaded the cn driver you pointed at in this thread and voilá !!

What really upsets is that this kit was supsed to be an original Arduino. I guess there is no safe way to buy an original Arduino here in Chile.