I have seen a few people who have had trouble getting their Arduino drivers installed correctly. The ‘Installing drivers for the Arduino Uno with Windows7, Vista, or XP’ section on the Arduino ’Getting Started’ page says you will get the following error and will have to install the drivers in the device manager. No problem… Until you see that the board is not showing up under ‘Ports (COM & LPT)’.
How to install the drivers:
- Right-click ‘Computer’ on your Desktop and go to ‘Properties’.
- Click ‘Device Manager’ in the upper left of ‘Control Panel\System and Security\System’.
- You will see ‘Arduino Mega ADK’ under ‘Other devices’. Right-click it and select ‘Update Driver Software…’.
- Click on ‘Browse my computer for driver software’.
- Click on ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer’.
- Select ‘Ports (COM & LPT)’ from the list and click ‘Next’.
- Click the ‘Have Disk…’ button. Now click the ‘Browse…’ button on the ‘Install From Disk’ prompt.
- Locate the .inf file which is in the ‘drivers’ folder of the unpacked zip which was downloaded from the Arduino website download page.
- Click ‘Open’ and then ‘OK’ and then ‘Next’.
- Click ‘Yes’ on the warning.
- Wait for the prompt telling you success and poof! Done.
Thanks broskie!!
THANK YOU!!!! This had me stumped, and I was beginning to feel the panic of desperation. Great explanation!
Many, many thanks! Worked perfectly on Win7 x64
thank you…. for this instructions…..
It worked!!!!thanks!!!
Wahooo !! I was completely desperate, but It works now, thanks to YOU !
Many many thanks for these instructions !
I get the error at the end that says:
Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device.
Arduino Mega 2560 R3
The thrid-party INF does not contain digital signiture information.
Thank you so much. I wasn’t sure how to install the driver for individual arduino boards. Thanks again.
thanks a lot…it worked…..
Thanks for the help….Worked fine..
I have done this a thousand times and I always forget to hit the ‘Let me pick option’ Thanks for the reminder and nice tutorial!
Thank you for the step by step explanation of how to fix this perplexing problem!
It works… thanks
Thank you for this! I can’t understand why the Arduino site can convey this information. I found this information and it only took about a minute to be up and running!
Cosmic, ta
Thanks buddy!!! It worked.
Thanks a lot, worked great!
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THANK YOU very much !!!!!
It works 
When installing the driver, leave a message “Could not find the file specified.” What’s the problem?
thank you so much… worked perfectly
Thanks for taking the time to post this. It really helped me out.