Installing drivers for an arduino nano in windows 1 minute read if you are attempting to use an arduino nano on a windows machine and having no luck finding drivers automatically, chances are it is due to a counterfeit ftdi chip which unfortunately does not work with the automatic driver finding functionality in windows.. When the arduino software (ide) is properly installed you can go back to the getting started home and choose your board from the list on the right of the page. last revision 2016/08/09 by sm the text of the arduino getting started guide is licensed under a creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 license .. Getting started with arduino and genuino uno. choose the uno driver file named "arduino uno.inf" windows will finish up the driver installation from there. see also: step-by-step screenshots for installing the uno under windows xp. open your first sketch. reconnect the board and select that serial port. upload the program..
Hi i recently upgraded my windows 8 pc to windows 10 and now i cant find my pocket avr programmer or my usbasp, the com port is grayed out and i cant select anything. the arduino uno drivers are showing up like they should but not my avr programmers.. Windows 10 serial usb problems the latest (january) update to windows 10 seems to cause problems with the usb serial driver when connecting to an arduino. i can upload a small sketch to an arduino mega, but larger sketches fail with an "averdude checksum error", and i get periodic freezes when sending commands via usb serial to my 3d printer.. *includes the following version of of the windows operating system: windows 7, windows server 2008 r2 and windows 8, 8.1, windows server 2012 r2, windows server 2016 and windows 10. also, as windows 8 rt is a closed system not allowing for 3rd party driver installation our windows 8 driver will not support this variant of the os..
