error with Arduino Nano

Good morning, I have an Arduino Nano and installed on the computer with windows 7 Arduino 1.5.7 (Windows program: ZIP file (for non-administrator install) installed everything normally and recognizes the Portcom 3, what happens is that when I want to go the sketch for the 3x3x3 LED cube I get an error, that is:
stk500_getsync (): not in sync: resp = 0x00
But previously used the same Arduino program 1.5.7 (Windows: ZIP file (for non-administrator install) but on windows 8.1 and everything worked smoothly!
What can I do to get pass the sketch for the Arduino Nano but with windows 7?

Nano requires an FTDI driver - did you install that also?
If you look in Control Panel:Devices:Device Manager: Ports (something like that) does FTDI show up with no ! over the port name when the Nano is connected?