Nano FTDI Win 7

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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So my dad has given me a box of Arduino bits for a few projects and said it will be easy!.....

I have an Arduino Nano V3.0 and a Funduino Pro Mini. 5V

Since I have had issues I have read that there are driver issues with FTDI chips and I gather mine are fakes.

Loaded Arduino IDE 1.0.6 on to my Win 7 Pro 64-bit PC.

Plugged in Nano and I have run the executable driver install from FTDI. Appears to install and appears as a device without issues.

Arduini IDE has shown various errors no matter what I try.

On Youtube I have tried the manual driver update by the Helpful German. Un-brick the FT232RL FTDI USB Serial Adapter - YouTube and no luck.

I have checked the bricking clip with the Mprog Unbrick Arduino FTDI FIX (Driver Update Win7 Arduino Nano FT232R USB UART) - YouTube
and mine shows fine with 6001.

All this and no blinking LED.

SO what next?

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The pro mini needs a USB to serial converter, have you got one of those that is not FTDI based and can you upload programs to the Pro Mini from that?

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For the Pro Mini I do have a USB to Serial converter but unfortunately that too is FTDI.

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Have you tried the loopback test?
The FTDI fake/driver problem should have more drastic results (not appearing as a device) than you are describing.
Which "board" are you selecting?

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I've used FTDI on win7 64 bits with no issues. When I installed drivers there was a red warning message but you could ignore it (install anyway).