Installing an older F100 series on Windows 10
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If your F100 series generator was built before Windows 7 came out, you will need to update the USB firmware to support MS-Windows 7 ,8 and 10. This needs to be done before switching to MS-Windows 7,8 or 10 . To be able to do this update, you need a Windows system that can communicate with the generator. This can either be a Windows XP or Vista system. Most Windows systems starting with version 7 will not be able to communicate with the generator without this firmware update. Prior to switching Windows versions, please download F100 , install it, connect your generator and turn it on. Then select tools->Update USB firmware. Then turn off and on your generator. After this, a new USB driver will be installed. On most systems, this will be done automatically by Windows. On others, you will have to install it manually via the MS-Windows Device manager. The new USB drive is located in c:\Program Files\f100\usb .
If you do not have access to a Windows XP computer, an alternative is to temporarily disable driver signing on Windows 10. You need to do this just to be able to update the USB driver from the F100 software. After, you can re-enable driver signatures. Here are instructions:
