Windows says driver is up to date when its not.

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Ok so this is my first time trying to use Arduino and i've got a FTDI programmer for my Arduino pro board, I've got Windows 7 32bit.

So when I plug the FTDI into the usb port it comes up as "Profilic USB to Serial Port" in device manager. So then I try to update the driver to the FTDI driver but then I get a message saying "Windows has determined that the driver is already up to date" . But apon checking the driver it's definetly not a FTDI driver it says something called "serenum.sys" and "ser2pl64.sys"

I've tried it numerous times since last night, I even tried deleting them but it still said the drivers were already up to date when i tried updating them, but under its general properties it says the driver needs updating????? doesnt make sense :0

I only started trying to fix this after i got the error message "avrdude stk500_getsync() not in sync resp=0x30"

Can someone please help, I've been at it for hours and i can't find a solution.

Maybe the 2 Drivers that windows installed on it are ok and the "not in sync" error has nothing to do with the drivers???

I will really appreciate any help.
Thanks

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Ok, so i just used the same flash data stuff to flash something else using a usbasp and it worked fine, so now its narrowed down to the ftdi or the board.

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Wow, Thanks all for your great help lol.

After all my fiddling with the FTDI, i found a way to wire up my usbasp to the board.

And it worked. Don't know why that wasnt a suggested method of flashing in the first place. everywhere i read knowone said anything about being able to do it with a usbasp which i already had.
I could have saved my $10 and hours of work and just used my old usbasp.