I am now trying to find a way to uninstall this driver either in the few seconds before my computer blue screens or using a repair disk. The problem now is that when I login to Windows, However, as I expected, this did not work. Long story short, nothing worked and I ended up trying a last ditch effort of manually installing unsupported drivers by following this post on reddit: To remove such a USB device driver simply right-click on it and select Uninstall Selected Devices.I upgraded to a new motherboard recently and found out Windows 7 does not support USB 3.0, so I went on a bit of a journey trying to install drivers for this.

Many of this USB devices are left-overs or duplicates that will only cause issues with your PC operation and might lead to conflicts with new driver installation attemps These USB devices will not show on to the Windows Device Manager The other USB devices for wich drivers were installed but are currently disconnected from your PC will show up with 'gray light' meaning there are not in use or inactive. A list of USB devices that are active and connected to your PC will be displayed with a 'green light' Right-click USBDeview.exe file (the one with a green icon) and select Run as administrator Extract the archive content on your destop or anywhere on your hard- disk Download the archive that the version of Windows that you have, from the download links above How to uninstall a device driver with USBDeview

It will allow fresh with a device installation, thus, preventing COM port conflicts and driver update issues.

The following tool is called 'USBDeview' developed by Nir Sofer (2006- 2013) - all right reserved), a tool that will allow you to see active and inactive USB devices (ghost USB devices) installed in your Windows computer by their driver name and perform a number of operations on them like uninstall, disable, disconnect, disable + enable and others.

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