By default, Windows 8 enforces the requirement that drivers be digitally signed. This constraint needs to be relaxed in order to manually install the IOLab driver, which requires you to reboot your computer and follow the steps described below. If you are not comfortable doing this you probably shouldn't. Also, since the computer will reboot after you do
A, you should write down the steps of
B before you start.
A. Open a command prompt and reboot your computer with the following command:
shutdown -o -r -t 0
B. On reboot, do the following:
- Click
Troubleshoot
- Click
Advanced Options
- Click
Startup Settings
- Click
Restart
- When the computer restarts, select
Disable driver signature enforcement from the list.
Once the computer starts up you can proceed with the manual driver installation described below. Once the driver is installed you should reboot the computer again to restore the driver digital signature enforcement.
1. Download
Driver.zip, a zipped folder containing the driver.
2. Extract the folder called
Driver and put it on your desktop (you can delete it when you are finished).
3. Plug the IOLab dongle into an available USB port on your computer. After trying for a while, Windows will fail to find the driver.
4. In the
Start Menu, choose
Control Panel and open the
Device Manager.
5. Under the heading
Ports (COM & LPT) you should see an entry called
IOLab Virtual COM Port. Right click on this entry and select
Update Driver Software.
6. Select
Browse my computer for driver software and navigate to the
Driver folder that you put on your desktop in step 2. Select the
Driver folder and click on
OK and then on
Next.
7. When Windows complains that it can't verify the publisher of this driver software, just click on
Install this driver software anyway to finish the installation.