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If you are unfamiliar with the device and driver installation process, we recommend that you start by reviewing Roadmap for Device and Driver Installation. You may also want to read Overview of Device and Driver Installation for a high-level overview of this process and its components.

Recently purchased and set up a Pro-1000. I was able to connect to the Wi-Fi network through the printer itself, and Windows can find my printer. I can also find the printer when I go through the setup wizard.

This appears to work, for now. I'm in a bit of a conundrum because now I have this Canon printer but now hate Canon with a fiery passion. I believe there may be some issues with their driver signatures that cause installation errors on some Windows configurations.

You have to install the software before hooking the printer up to the computer.....had the same problem with another canon printer. Delete any instances in the settings area. Then install the drivers, etc. the software will tell you when to turn on the printer. Make sure the printer is not on while you are installing the software, otherwise windows will find it and install it's own version.

Thanks but I'm not sure if that's possible. The installer requries the printer to be on and connected, because one of the early steps in the installer is to select your printer from the list of available/connected printers.

I was able to reach Canon by phone today. They said this is a known issue and they do not have a fix for it. They blamed it on Windows, but I have had no issues installing any other software or drivers on this machine. They said it's a Windows issue that can crop up with any Canon printer driver.

It's possible, although checking Canon's driver signature with DigiCert shows that one of the signatures expired in Feb 2020. It additionally throws a warning that the signature doesn't contain a timestamp.

I'm trying to enable Intel SRT on my laptop. To do this, I need to change SATA controller mode from AHCI to RAID. The problem is that windows has no drivers for RAID and I can't install it while controller is in AHCI mode.

For now I have RAID driver in INF package (inf, sys, cat files). And I can load Windows recovery console with controller in RAID mode. The last thing to do is to intall this driver, but I don't know how to do it.

For me pnputil.exe did not do the trick. However, I found the following command, which helped: dism /Image:C:\ /Add-Driver /Driver:D:\ /Recurse. This assumes that your Windows is installed at C:\ and the disk with the driver is present at D:\. This appears to even work, if the disk contains drivers for different architectures (x86 and x64) and operating system versions (XP, 7, ...).

I encountered an issue where I had a VM (W2k12) on Proxmox and needed more than one driver. However, I didn't know which driver was required, and pnputil was not available for Windows Server 2012 in the recovery console.

a. I ran the command for /r %d in (*.inf) do drvload %d. This command searches recursively in the current directory and its subdirectories for all files and loads them as drivers. By doing this, I made sure that all available drivers were loaded into the system.

These commands assume that the Windows operating system is installed on the C: drive. The pnputil command installs a driver with the specified .inf file using the -i -a options. The dism command, which is used for servicing Windows images, adds a driver from the D: drive to the C: drive using the /Image:C:\ and /Driver:D:\ parameters. The /Recurse option ensures that the command recursively searches for drivers in the specified location.

In this case, I assumed that the D: drive represented my CDROM/USB drive, and there were .inf files present. These commands changed the directory to the D: drive using cd /D D:, and then, using the for /r loop, iterated through each .inf file.The drvload command was used to install the driver in the recovery, and the c:\windows\pnputil -i -a command installed the driver using the pnputil tool.

The workaround solutions I employed involved recursive searches and executing commands against each driver file found. This enabled the installation of multiple drivers even in cases where the native recursive function was not available, such as in Windows Server 2012.

I want to do clean windows installation on my laptop and install all drivers from laptop manufacturer site. The problem is when I install windows with internet connection windows automatically install all OEM drivers right after the first boot up.

My question is: Is it fine to just download and install laptop manufacturer drivers on top of OEM drivers installed by windows? Or should I install windows offline and right after the first boot up install manufacturer drivers from USB and then connect to the internet?

You can always download drivers from the manufacturer's websiteand install them over the Windows drivers. However, if the driversin Windows are more recent, Windows will reinstall its own driverson the next boot, thus replacing the ones you just installed.

Also, it is possible that Drivers appear on the Manufacturer's website before being in the Manufacturer's Driver Update App and possibly before being in the Windows Update Catalogue. There is nothing you can do about this, so probably just wait for Windows to offer the update.

I don't know why your question has received so many down votes. Specifically when building workstations for creative applications like Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer we are advised to NOT allow windows to install these devices automatically. We are always encouraged to do the above and install the manufacturer drivers instead.

I've got an old laptop (2nd gen i7) with a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 21h1 that I'm using in my new workspace to get back into tinkering, which I haven't done in several years. I know I need to install the driver for the CH340 controller to work properly, but I can't seem to install it. I've downloaded several times from multiple sources. The installer will launch, but when I click the install button I get "Driver install failure!"

I've tried compatibility mode and disabling driver enforcement (as recommended on this forum as far back as 2017), but nothing is working. I also tried on my main PC (also newer than the last time I tinkered with an Arduino) and it's also failing here with the same nondescript error.

I suspect Microsoft's recent over-enthusiastic "protect users from themselves" Apple mentality is to blame. I've had other issues with programs being blocked with no option to unblock them in the past few months leading to large amounts of frustration.

I apologize if this has been recently covered. But, I've searched quite a bit (over the last 2 hours) and I keep winding up on the same threads from 4 years ago, nothing more recent is coming up & those solutions are not working.

Where did you get the driver? I recommend always using the one from the CH340 manufacturer's website:
_EXE.html
(click the cloud with a downward pointing arrow button)
I believe they also have an English language version of the website at wch-ic.com, but I haven't found the time to investigate that option, so I am still recommending the original wch.cn site as the best source for this driver.

Just as an experiment, I grabbed an even crappier old laptop and installed Windows 10 1903 and the driver installed just fine. It seems the problem lies in newer versions of Windows 10 as I suspected.

I had not, but I just gave it a try and had the same problem as you. I actually think I have only ever used the driver installer once. I always use the .zip file and install the drivers via Windows Device Manager because some driver installers also install additional applications to manage that device and I only need the driver itself in this case.

Hi @k9tr. You can try running the .exe file that is in the unzipped driver folder. This is an installer provided by the chip manufacturer. I haven't had any success with running that (even though the procedure I describe above works perfectly for me), but another user reported that the manual driver installation via Device Manager did not work for them, but running the installer did work. So it's worth a try.

I had already tried running the .exe, no difference noted. I do have CH341PT.DLL and CH341SER.VXD in my System 32 folder, so something is attempting to install. Unfortunately these files don't properly install and/or function.

I'm getting a different error, but I see that two files are being created in the system32 folder. So the driver install is at least copying files, even though they don't work. I'm using the same version of Windows 10, 21H1. I even tried restoring Windows to a restore point created before the most recent drivers were installed, but the restore failed when it attempted to copy the registry. So even that old trick doesn't work, for me anyway. Waiting to hear more from Arduino support.

Yes, an official Arduino requires no driver. I have one, it works fine. Also, the clone manufacturer changed their hardware and they now require the FTDI driver instead of the CH340. They were not very good at communicating this change, hence my prior posts. My original clone board is working fine with the FTDI driver.

I have tried all possible methods of installing the CH340 driver, and although by some methods both the installer and windows say "installed successfully", and the device appears proper in the Device Manager "USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM4)", the Arduino IDE always refuses to communicate with it. On occasion, Windows gives a notification that "driver not installed successfully" and the reason is "driver not found". On other occasions, Windows says driver installed correctly. I get the dreaded "avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout" from the IDE using any method. I reboot windows after every "install".