![]() The new driver for these chips from FTDI, delivered through a recent Windows update, reprograms the USB PID to 0, something Windows, Linux, and OS X don’t like. Reports of problems with FTDI chips surfaced early this month, with an explanation of the behavior showing up in an EEVblog forum thread. ![]() This isn’t a case where fake FTDI chips won’t work if plugged into a machine running the newest FTDI driver the latest driver bricks the fake chips, rendering them inoperable with any computer. Thanks to a recent Windows update,all those fake FTDI chips are at risk of being bricked. It’s a simple chip, converting USB to a serial port, but very useful and probably one of the most cloned pieces of silicon on Earth. The FTDI FT232 chip is found in thousands of electronic baubles, from Arduinos to test equipment, and more than a few bits of consumer electronics. ![]() I was reading back through the posts on today and discovered this article.
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