Arduino usb2serial not recognized. Help please D:

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Two weeks ago i bought the Arduino USB2Serial converter (http://store.arduino.cc/product/A000059), hoping I would be able to program an ATMEGA328P-PU. When I connected everything to the board I tried to connect it to my laptop, but it did not recognize it. I installed a .inf file I found somewhere on the arduino website, I turned off the digital signature check, but still my laptop does not recognize it (it runs windows 8 ). It does not appear in the device manager list, my laptop does not make the sound it makes when I connect my Arduino Uno (or another random USB device).

I truly hope someone here can help me. I searched a long time if someone else had the same problem, but i could not find anything. Also, in all the examples they use a USB2Serial Light board, my board just says USB2Serial, but I dont know if this makes a difference.

Thanks!

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The drivers are here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/USBSerial

But yeay, the board should make at least a sound / appear in device manager to be usable.

Btw, bad move to first connect everything to the USB2Serial board and then try to install it. With new boards etc, just plug it in bare at first, install drivers and then go ahead and start playing with it.