Only part of Nano v3 recognized in device manager.

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I had the Nano working earlier today, tested out a few programs, then unplugged it and left it for a while. When I came back to try out a new program the Nano wasn't showing up. I went to device manager and it doesn't show up under ports. However, the FT232R does show up under other devices. I have tried installing drivers for it, however nothing takes.

Any help or ideas is appreciated.

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Browse the forum, apparently something has happened quite recently where counterfeit FTDI FT232 chips are being detected by Windows and being blocked out.

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Saw that in one of these threads. Wish I know what the workaround they were talking about was.

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Workaround fakes the VID/PID info somehow.
If you select:
Control Panel:System: Device Manager: Ports: right click on USB device:Properties: Details:Hardware IDs, good one shows this:
ftdibus\comport&vid_0403&pid_6001

Counterfeits will have 0s instead I think.

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Over here, we have currently the same discussion:
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270176.0

So I checked my Hardware ID and it says:

USB\VID_0403&PID_0000&REV_0600

I guess I have a bad one. Bummer.

But can you tell my why it worked un til last week and not anymore? Is the FTDI Driver updated in the background without my knowledge that it is now firing this action?

Indy

PS: For people who came here because of a searchengine:
You can also read about it here:
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270175.0

EDIT:
I found a fix right here:

You have to download the Driver from the link there and then manually assign first the FTDI Bus and then the FTDI Port inf files. I did this and my Arduino IDE had no problem uploading a blink sketch.

I also tried my best in this short video. I hope this will help others.
Video Tutorial:

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Yes, a new version of FTDI's driver (which had been their website-download version since Feb) got pushed into the Windows Update driver database on 1 Oct.

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Can anyone post the "Fix" Windows Screen Shots in English? That would sure help us English-only "Newbies" in implementing it!

Thanks for any help!

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I tried my best in this short video. I hope this will help others.
Video Tutorial:

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Indyaner:
Over here, we have currently the same discussion:
Nano ft232r error, worked till today :( - IDE 1.x - Arduino Forum

So I checked my Hardware ID and it says:

USB\VID_0403&PID_0000&REV_0600

I guess I have a bad one. Bummer.

But can you tell my why it worked un til last week and not anymore? Is the FTDI Driver updated in the background without my knowledge that it is now firing this action?

Indy

PS: For people who came here because of a searchengine:
You can also read about it here:
Unable to get FT232R drivers loaded under Windows 7 64bit - IDE 1.x - Arduino Forum

EDIT:
I found a fix right here:
Octopus Box Not Detect [Solved] - GSM-Forum

You have to download the Driver from the link there and then manually assign first the FTDI Bus and then the FTDI Port inf files. I did this and my Arduino IDE had no problem uploading a blink sketch.

I also tried my best in this short video. I hope this will help others.
Video Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPdSKT6KdF8

This worked flawlessly, thank you very much!

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aquí está la solución: (me funcionó haciendo esto)