Fresh CW1173 install on a Windows 10 Pro laptop

There was an error in the latest driver build - was attempting to pass WHQL and instead broke everything. In mean-time you can downgrade drivers using following procedure:

  1. Run a command prompt as admin:
    SET devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
    devmgmt.msc

  2. Select “Show Hidden Devices” from one of the top menus

  3. Find all ChipWhisperer devices under the “libusb-win32” section of device manager. Uninstall them.

  4. Run the command at command prompt “pnputil -e” . Look for all hits of NewAE Technology Inc (i.e., remember name of oem24.inf)

  5. Run command “pnputil -d oemXX.inf” for each hit (there may only be one).

  6. Download & unzip drivers from github.com/newaetech/chipwhispe … 4.0.1alpha

  7. Plug CW-Lite in. On driver install, tell it to use local resource and point to that folder you unzipped.

The slightly crazy instructions are needed to force a “downgrade” of driver version number. Once a fixed version is build (working on now) it will all be better…