Hey CrossRoads ,
Appreciate your help.
My windows is 64 bit,
But apparently I found out a solution... though it doesn't seem correct..
I plugged in the board to the computer and took the board in hand and looked carefully at FT232RL chip pins and momentarily shorted pin number 18 and 19 with a multimeter prod and BINGO!!! the board started working ...
COM 14 port started showing up under PORT (COM & LPT) section of device driver and exclamation mark on
"USB Serial Device" vanished.
Pin no 18 is GND and Pin no 19 is RESET#
Only problem is now, I have to carry out resetting every time I connect the board to computer.
Thinking of soldering a 0.1uF cap between those pins to help it reset every time automatically...
For now... I am enjoying with my sketches....
Cheers!!