problems picking up non-genuine arduinos on multiple usb cables.

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi Everyone!

For a long time I have had this little Arduino Nano that was not manufactured by Arduino...
Today I wanted to use it for something and when I plugged it in with a mini usb cable, it didn't even pick up the Arduino. My first instinct was to try a different usb cable, as not all of them work. I tryed 4 usb cables and none of them worked. After surfing youtube and the troubleshooting page on the Arduino website, I still couldn't get my Arduino Nano to work. Could anyone help me with this problem?

My Computer is a MacBookPro running OS X El Capitan
I have Arduino IDE version 1.6.5
and I included a picture of my Arduino Nano below

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Did you install the FTDI drivers?

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I install the virtual COM FTDI drivers and restarted my computer and nothing worked

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"Arduino Nano that was not manufactured by Arduino"
Are you sure it has an FTDI chip, FT232RL, on it?

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Thanks for all your help,
I actually found out that my Arduino Nano is one of many that come from china not manufactured with actual FTDI chips, I found this helpful website that has a driver fix that allows you to use these arduinos with the IDE.

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