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1225 RSS being stupid

knockoffham

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There was a fake set of Prolific serial to usb chips sets floating around a few years ago.

I think Prolific did a change to the drivers to make sure the fake chips would not work and that caused some issues. Maybe a driver roll back would help.
Yes, I have encountered that many times. This PC hasn’t had an active internet connection since I’ve owned it though, so the only drivers it has are the ones it shipped with or anything I add via flash drive/CD/floppy etc. The prolific ribless cable I had was plug and play, worked great until when 1225 RSS started acting up and I went to give it another try… “No driver found”. And I went to manually select one and “the device failed to start.” I will have to make a driver CD and fight with it again today. The counterfeit-chip-intentionally-broken-driver issue with Prolific stuff only affects Windows 10/11 in my experience. The annoying thing is it also affects legitimate PL-2303 chips as well.
 
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