The ICUSB232PRO 1 ft USB to RS232 Serial DB9 Adapter Cable with COM Retention offers a professional grade solution for connecting legacy or industrial RS232 serial devices to a laptop or desktop computer through USB - eliminating the expense of upgrading serial peripherals for compatibility. Dec 22, 2015 1) Download a driver (Ex. Prolific usb to rs232) 2) Right click on the setup and choose troubleshoot compatibility or run it as a program that is compatible for earlier version of windows. 3) Install Driver. 4) Restart Computer. I just tried this and it worked but make sure you restart computer.
May 08, 2018 this video will shows you step by step how to resolve the Prolific USB RS232 PL2303 issue for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Download the Prolific USB PL2303. Prolific Technology is a IC design house company and ASIC design service provider for USB Smart I/O (USB to UART, Card Readers, External USB Drive), Intelligent Green Energy Saving, and Mixed-Mode Hall Sensor solutions. Apr 22, 2019 The PL2303TA is a USB to Serial Bridge Controller from Prolific. The chipset provides USB to straight-through RS232 serial connectivity at baud rates up to 128Kbps. This allows you to use a USB port in your computer to a RS232 type devices such as point-of-sale terminals, serial modems as well as industrial equipment. Prolific also prohibits the distribution of any PL-2303 drivers (including download links) without written permission from Prolific. Prolific advices end-users to only purchase vendor branded cable products with company name contact information for service and support. Prolific does not sell cables with Prolific brand and packaging.
Hi,
I'm afraid that there is no solution..
There is lot's of people reporting problems with W10 and Prolific devices (based on popular PL2303 adapter).
Myself, I've the same problems with scrolling LED Badges, and USB to COM dongles. All this devices use a PL2303 to provide a connection to an USB port, but inside, they are RS232-like interface build (and appear as a COM port in your operating system). When you plug the device into USB, it is well recognized by W10 and it try to load the Prolific driver. This work fine, but looking at the configuration panel, you will then notice that there is an error code 10 and the driver is not working properly.
There is lot's of people reporting problems with W10 and Prolific devices (based on popular PL2303 adapter).
Myself, I've the same problems with scrolling LED Badges, and USB to COM dongles. All this devices use a PL2303 to provide a connection to an USB port, but inside, they are RS232-like interface build (and appear as a COM port in your operating system). When you plug the device into USB, it is well recognized by W10 and it try to load the Prolific driver. This work fine, but looking at the configuration panel, you will then notice that there is an error code 10 and the driver is not working properly.
Of course, you can try to manually update the driver at Prolific site:
But, look carefully on this page and you will read an important notice in RED :
Windows 8/8.1/10 are NOT supported in PL-2303HXA and PL-2303XEOL (End Of Life) chip versions.
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This is clear: if your device is using an old chip version of PL2303, the drivers not works with W10 (and W8).
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As many people, you probably upgrade directly from W7 to W10, and sure, don't know that this problem was already present with W8. It's a shame from Prolific to not support this devices, because they are still used (my LED badges are less than a year old, and use EOL PL-2303 HX). Prolific's guys are fun when they said : 'Prolific recommends to use PL-2303HXD (HX Rev D) or PL2303TA chip.' . Hey, but I can't do that myself !!!
I don't want to send my devices to trash because they are too old (less than a year !) to be supported by W10.
May be, a solution will be to use the old W7 drivers version into W10. Not tested.. I will try..
May be, a solution will be to use the old W7 drivers version into W10. Not tested.. I will try..
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