ok, i know this isnt really looked well upon, and it is kinda outrageous to come here for help. i was handed this knock off arduino nano board a few days ago by a buddy of mine. as a long time uno owner i thought it would be plug and play as anything with regular arduinos, but i was of course wrong. i couldent get it to be recognized or anything, no matter what i did.
after a while of pondering i saw that instead of a standard issue FTDI chip there was something else there, a CH3406. it wouldent even recognize asanything more than a "usb2.0-serial" on some obscure port i cant get the arduino program to send stuff to.
as i said, it is frowned upon by even me to do knockoffs, but as this is for a school project and i kinda need it i humbly come here for help, as you guys are the most proficient at this i could come up with at the moment.