Prolific USB to RS232 Chipset - Really?
Channel: curriegrad2004
Date: 25/12/2012

Seriously?

Sure we all do understand that older revs of chips may not be optimal than the newer chips. That's why there's newer revs.

However... By having the driver to refuse to start on detection of an older rev of the chipset on Windows 8 is just... Seriously?!

Kids, please stay away from any USB dongles containing this chipset. Although older drivers meant for Vista (beacuse of Microsoft's rule of NT 6.0 Drivers can be used on NT6.1 and NT 6.1 Drivers on NT 6.2, etc) can circumvent this issue, but still a pain to find.