I am using an Arduino Uno with ATMega chip with my Windows 10 computer and I can't seem to find any way to get the drivers installed on the device. The device Arduino Uno does not appear in the ports in the Arduino IDE.
After going into the device manager I can see that the device has a problem as it is flagged with a yellow exclamation mark.
So I right-click on it and it and select update driver and then look for drivers in the Arduino ide driver folder.
However, it says that it can't find the driver.
I have even tried using the Arduino on a friend's computer that also has windows 10 and the drivers were installed automatically and it worked fine so it is not the Arduino. I even tried an Arduino Nano on my computer and it had the exact same problem as the Uno.
If anyone can figure out why Arduinos don't want to work on only my computer and what I can do to fix it I would be extremely thankful.
It is a different brand, however, it still has the ATMega Chip so as far as I understand it should use the same drivers. I was not able to identify the brand as it was just one I have borrowed from my work. Here is a picture so if there is anything different I should be doing for this specific Arduino please let me know.
It is a different brand, however, it still has the ATMega Chip so as far as I understand it should use the same drivers.
A common mistake if you don't know the boards. This is the Microcontroller, and is the same on 99.9% of the UNO & NANO clones I have seen and does not need a driver. The chip next to the USB port is the USB -> TTL interface chip, and this does require a driver. As you have found, the clone board you have has a CH340 chip, and needed a driver not supplied by Arduino. It could of also been a cp2101 chip, again needing a different driver.
