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Prolific USB to Serial Adapter not installing

We had a customer who was having problems installing the prolific USb to Serial adapter. For some reason the install couldnt find the drivers. The following instrucitons helped resolve his problem.

1. Open the Device Manager
2. Right Click on USB-Serial controller D
3. Select Update Driver
4. If asked, don’t have the hardware wizard search the internet for the driver. And click Next
5. Select Install from a list or specific location. And click Next
6. Select Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install. And click Next
7. This next screen isn’t always the same. If you see a Have Disk button then click on it. If you see a list of device types only, then double click on the option to Show All Devices, and then click on the have disk button.
8. Navigate to the \Windows\system32\ folder or the \Windows\system32\Drivers\ folder Or to the folder where you download the attached file. It should identify a file called ser2pl.inf.
9. Select that file and click on the Okay button
10. Follow through with the rest of the wizard, having it use the driver you selected.

From here the driver should be installed correctly. The link for the driver files is http://sewelldirect.com/Drivers/SW-1301-XP2K-FILES.zip

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 15th, 2007 at 8:45 am and is filed under Serial. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Prolific USB to Serial Adapter not installing”

  1. apophis Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    thanks a lot this sorted my prob out straight away
    again

    cheers

  2. t0n3tt3 Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 4:04 am

    it worked!! thank God I found this site!

  3. ruben Says:
    June 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    thnx for this mate ;)

  4. Chris Moore Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Thank You
    It worked like a charm

  5. Charles Pearson Says:
    July 5th, 2008 at 6:00 am

    I too am very pleased I found this site.

    I’d spent 5 hours trying to update my gps speed camera system.

    5 minutes after finding this site, the job was done.

    Thank you very much.

  6. Tom Glenn Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 3:59 am

    Would have been searching for hours had I not found this website whilst trying to get my random/generic USB-Serial Controller D to work.

    Thanks!

  7. Rolf Coopers Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 8:34 am

    i tried the above, but the connection shows a exclamation mark and before I got the warning Do not install this driver, it will not work. What have I done wrong?
    Can anybody help?

  8. Alessandro - ITALY Says:
    October 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 am

    Thanks ALL,
    it work with all adapter Serial 232 - USB.

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