Here is my success story to loading the drivers correctly. Maybe it will help one of you. I had Windows 7 on my laptop. Its an old laptop but its fast. I participated in the Windows 10 development program. I had downloaded Windows 10 and installed it on this Windows 7 machine years ago. I had used the recovery CD to install it back to Windows 7 after having some issues a while back. After trying multiple times to install the Orange Cube drivers to the Windows 7 OS by using some directions I found on this forum, I gave up. I decided I needed Windows 10 to make this work. To my surprise, Microsoft gave us back the ability to convert our Windows 7 machines to Windows 10, as long as we participated in the Windows 10 development program. They confirmed my eligibility based off some hardware info they recorded from my laptop, MAC address, etc. After installing Windows 10 Pro I still had failures to install the drivers needed to run the Orange Cube, despite following the instructions to a T!
Only this time I noticed the drivers were installing in a different way, meaning they looked different in my Device Manager. I wasn’t sure what I had screwed up. In a last-ditch effort I decided to do a complete operating system restore on Windows 10. I let it run at night as this takes a while. The next morning I finished up the install and completely updated Windows 10 Pro. I downloaded and installed Mission Planner. Using the Ctrl + F function in Mission Planner I cleared Mission Planner’s drivers and closed the program. I then installed the driver.msi file listed in this forum. I rebooted the laptop, after letting the laptop boot up, I opened the device manager, I plugged the cube into a USB port and all of the drivers automatically loaded. The cube is now connected and both com ports are shown correctly in my Device Manager. I hope this helps some of you. Make sure to back up any files you want to keep, I didn’t have any files so I did a complete restore.
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