[TUTORIAL] SP Flash Tools Guide - Installing VCOM Drivers in Windows 7/ 8 / 8.1

Installing VCOM Drivers in Windows 7/ 8 / 8.1

So, you wanted to flash a ROM using SP Flash Tool or anything else and your PC/Laptop doesn't detect your device in Windows 8.1 ?? The following guide was made base on my own real experience, I hope this can help readers the solution for similar problem! Just read the blog and the tools will be able to detect your device..!

Pre-Requisites :

1. VCOM Drivers
2. In case of Windows 7 or Win 8/8.1, you may need to "Disabled Driver Signature Verification". Just goggle for the guide or I will provide simple guide in this blog (next post..)
3. Cup of Coffee Luwak 

The How To :

1. First You'll need VCOM Drivers.
2. Open Device Manager
3. Select the Disk Drives and click Action and click Add Legacy Hardware.
4. A Wizard may open up. Click Next and select "Install the hardware that i manually select from a list (Advanced)". Click Next. Click next one more time ( making sure that "Show all devices" is selected )
5. Click Have Disk at the next window and click browse and browse to the extracted folder of VCOM Drivers. Then open the Win7 Folder (for windows 7 & 8.1 ). Then if you're PC is 32 bit select the file named "usb2ser_Win7.inf". And if your PC is 64 bit select the file named "usb2ser_Win764.inf"
6. Click Next and select "MediaTek PreLoader USB VCOM Port" and click next.
7. Click Next again to begin the installation!
8. And if you have disabled Driver Signature Verification, you now have successfully installed the drivers! You come across a windows like the below one if the installation succeeded!
9. Don't worry about the message from "may not work correctly" .. Just ignore it!

The screenshot after successful installation:

Do not worry about the yellow triangle "exclamation" mark displayed at your PC Device Manager. It will just work flawlessly. The port will still be there even though your phone is disconnected from your PC.

Happy Flashing...