Arduino Mega - No com port

pert:
My instinct would be to use an ISP programmer to upload the firmware instead of messing with this DFU thing but I've never had a problem with any of mine so I've always just left that chip alone.

Can you give me more information on what you mean by this? I too have had no problems with my China boards, so this is the first time I've every had to deal with manual firmware updates.

Thanks