Microchip Technology, Inc. USB Serial Port driver download and installation

USB Serial Port is a Ports hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Microchip Technology, Inc.. USB/VID_04D8&PID_0205 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Microchip Technology, Inc. USB Serial Port driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Microchip Technology, Inc. USB Serial Port driver. The archive contains version 5.1.2600.9 released on 2014-10-06 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
The file size of this driver is 8101 bytes (7.91 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 56016 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Microchip Technology, Inc. USB Serial Port driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Microchip Technology, Inc. USB Serial Port driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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