Driver problems [Repost due to inappropriate category]

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Hey guys! I'm relatively new to Arduino, an I've come across a problem that I noticed on multiple computers that I've been using over the months. I don't seem to have every required driver installed on the computers that I need to properly communicate with the Arduino over the COM ports.

I have a main PC, where I can program every board to my liking without problems, but I have a NoteBook, where I cannot.
There are no COM channels what so ever in the device manager under the ports (COM and LPT) panel.
When I try to communicate with my ESP, I get this error message: "Port monitor error: command 'open' failed: Invalid serial port. Could not connect to COM serial port"
I'm guessing this is due to my missing drivers.

Here are the things that I have already tried:

Reverting to an older CH340 driver (3.5.2019.1)
Trying to install the COM ports manually over device manager (Actions > install older drivers > install manually > Ports (COM and LPT) > Standard Porttypes > Communication port) (This resulted in a COM3 showing up, but it has a little yellow triangle before it.)
Trying multiple USB ports and different microcontrollers

also, when I plug my ESP in, the previously grayed out "CP2102" USB to UART bridge controller also gets a little yellow triangle.

And as I said previously, this is not an issue only dedicated to this NoteBook. I've tried school PCs, and my own laptop, and neighter of those worked.

Honorable mention: This was going on with my main PC as well, but I found a USB to UART driver called CP210_Universal_Windows_Driver and it fixed the issue. The problem is, I cannot install this same driver to my NoteBook for whatever reason, maybe cause my main is Win 10, and my NoteBook is Win 11.

My question is, does anyone know what I'm missing? I'd be thankfull.

Have a nice day!

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did you try letting windows search for the driver for you?

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hope that helps...

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It isn't even showing up in the device magager.
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I right click the file named "silabser" and click install (as the readme suggests), and then a popup window appears saying that the process was successfully finished (something like that, I'm translating it from my native language) but the driver itself isn't showing up in the device manager.

When I try to add it manually through the device manager, it says that "oem200.inf successfully added and 0 installed on devices"

It doesn't make any sense. Atleast for me.

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Maybe you'll find some information here:

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