Silab's driver for CP210x USB adapter can't install after Win10's latest 1803 update. Here's a workaround until they update the driver:
https://www.silabs.com/community/interface/forum.topic.html/cp210x_driver_v101-91Gl
This only affects new driver installations after the 1803 upgrade. If you installed the device prior to the upgrade, you're fine.
This worked fine on a PC I just got for my office. Check out the smoking deal ($50 offer, shipped) on this monstrous refurb desktop beast with Win10 Pro:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282951085982 Good enough for most everything but gaming.
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Cheapskate erco-approved!
It was $90 OBO when I they accepted my lowball $50 offer! I offered to pick it up at that price, but they shipped it. Dunno how they do it. It came in a giant box that would cost me $50 to ship even locally.
So make 'em an offer. Come on in, the AMD water is fine!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282883306356
In fact I thought about getting a brand new HDD to put in this machine just to avoid hard drive failure. If this was a corporate machine, it could have been on 24/7 for years. Fry's has a WD 1TB drive for $32! Seems like that might last a while. Of course that's only 800 movies...
I haven't gotten physical media with a machine since XP. I bought a Win 7 CD to have it for emergencies, but I don't have any Win10 machines here yet. My son's DIY box came with the OS on a cheap thumb drive, but I recall it was only partial. It needed to connect to the Internet to complete installation.
Computer hardware & software changes so rapidly, it's hard to keep up. I'm afraid if I stopped working on them I would get left behind for good.
https://www.ebay.com/i/282883306356
Silab's updated CP210x driver works fine with Win10 v1803 now: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers
And FrankiesFastShip has still plenty of solid HP desktop refurbs with Win10 and a real live serial port. I love my boat anchor. He'd probably take a $50 or 60 offer for this ONE (as in last one): https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-Pro-6200-MT-Intel-i3-4GB-RAM-250GB-HDD-Win-10-USB-VGA-B-Grade-Desktop-/282803582466
I see the release notes below. The DTR change may have some effect ?
Trying to talk my office partner into grabbing it, so somebody I know gives it a good home!