"JohnD" wrote in
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"Nick Gardner" wrote in message ...

Dang 'n' darnation, for some reason I read Keith's email that he was
going to upgrade to Windows 8.1.

The old Prolific chipsets don't have drivers for Win8 either AFAIK (I
think that any driver that works under Win8 should also work under
Win10 and vice versa). The problem is that just saying Prolific
doesn't really define the chipset - I think there are at least two
sets of Prolific chipsets (very possibly 2) and while there may well
be Win8/10 drivers for more recent ones, these don't necessarily work
for the older chipsets eg as were used in the Davis 8434 adapters.
That's why I prefer FTDI - they do seem to be able to maintain both
chipset and driver compatibility over time.

@Keith: Drop us an email or phone on Monday morning and we can talk
further.

JGD


I have a USB to serial converter I purchased from Maplin some time ago
which I still use for downloading data from my Garmin GPS. I have just
plugged it in to the USB port on my Windows 10 desktop and it shows up as a
Prolific USb to serial COM3 port, the port number is dependant on the USB
port in use.

I am almost ceratin that I never explicityly loaded these drivers so I
think they are available from within either Windows 8 or 10; the PC came
with Windows 8 originally. In any case the Prolific drivers can be found
online. I have just checked and it is working fine.

Alan