Arduino Nano is not recognized in Windows10 in device manager

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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Hi,

I just bought two genuine Arduino Nano (with FTDI chip) and pluged them into my PC (Win10 64) on which I am running Arduino 1.8.5. In device manager the Nanos only are listed as "USB Serial Port (Com11)"
When I try to upload a program it takes a long time and fails with the message "Program is not responding".

Until now I have worked with a Arduino Uno R3 to run some temperature sensors and some relais for a cooling unit of a turbo charged car. With the Arduino Uno everything worked fine but I can not get the Nano to run. I have even tried on a old laptop with Windows7 and there it complains about a missing FT232R USB UART driver.

With my Uno everything works fine, just plug and play.

What a crap is this with a genuine Arduino from Arduino.cc and with the newest IDE (1.8.5) on the latest Windows10??

Kind regards,
Markus

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Do you have FTDI drivers for the Nano? Does it indeed have an FT232 on it?

http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

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You need to update to the latest version of the "Arduino AVR Boards" platform to upload to the new official Arduino Nanos.

Do this:

  1. Select Tools > Board > Boards Manager from the Arduino IDE menus.
  2. Wait for downloads to finish.
  3. Find "Arduino AVR Boards by Arduino" in the list of boards platforms. Click on it.
  4. Click the Update button.
  5. Wait for the update process to finish.
  6. Click the Close button.

You should now be able to upload to the Nano.

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Thank you so much guys. I updated the AVR boards in Arduino IDE and afterwards it was recognized properly in device manager and everything works fine.

Regards and thx,
Markus

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Se Windows 10 con l'ultima versione dell' IDE non funziona, compila ma non carica su arduino nano, provare ad impostare "utilizza OLD bootloader "
Buon lavoro a tutti