PCSGU250 win7-64 driver installation fails

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Hi all,

The PCSGU250 PC-oscilloscope seems to be great and affordable product, so I bought one.
All well, except that I tried now for one hour to install the USB-drivers for it on my laptop.
Windows cant find the drivers, not on the included CD, not the latest one I downloaded today.
It turned out that both of them miss the important “.inf” in the end of the filename!
I just added .inf to the file MCHPWinUSBDevice_v2 , so it was named: MCHPWinUSBDevice_v2.inf instead, and all went as intended!
Just wanted to tell so it can be updated on the CDs and download area, since this could drive you nuts I guess…

Looking forward to many nice projects together with this scope now!

Best regards,
karlmb

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Thank you for the feedback.
I’m sorry for the problems you had in getting the driver installed.

It was very stranger why the Windows 7 didn’t want to install the driver.
There is the .inf extension in the file.

It seems the option " Hide Extensions For Known File Types" is on .
To show the file extensions:
In the Windows Explorer window, click Organize, click Folder And Search Options, click the View tab, and uncheck the Hide Extensions For Known File Types.

I hope you enjoy your PCSGU250 !