Installing Arduino Drives

To detect arduino there must be arduino drivers install in your PC. Sometime you have to install drivers manually. I am going to show this using Windows 8. But same steps are valid for Windows7, vista and XP. You must download Arduino IDE must first. 

Plug your Arduino board in to PC. Sometimes PC will detect drives automatically. If not follow these steps.

1) Plug your Arduino board in to PC. Go to System properties and select Device Manager.

2) In this there is a Unknown device. Because still we didn't install arduino drivers.

 3) Right click on the Unknown device and select Update Driver Software....

 4) Then new window will pop up. Select Browse my computer for driver software

 5) Now browse where arduino IDE downloaded. In this there is a folder called drivers, select this and click OK. Make sure drivers folder not inside it. Then click Next.

Then automatically drivers are installed. After that you can see like this.

I am using Arduino Mega 2560 board. I will show on this. Make sure to remember COM port number. later it will important when use Arduino IDE. In this case it is COM3.

See you in the next tutorial.