THIS FIX DOES NOT REQUIRE PREVENTING WINDOWS UPDATES It solves the problem by renaming the alpham driver associated with the zboard so windows no longer blocks it. It is a permanent solution and leaves your system in its original condition security-wise.
There are people who are posting the driver they generated with this process for download. Please recognize that it would be very easy to put malicious code into a driver installed in this manner. I strongly recommend just generating your own as described below. Download someone else's driver at your own risk.
Oct 03, 2017 I love the zboard I have, and I can't afford to buy a new one, so it is very important to me to get it working properly.' As of this time, the 'special keys' do not work, or do not work as they are supposed to. If anyone has the OLD(pre 2005) drivers, I'd love to have them. Uninstall Zboard x64 driver package from Steelseries. Reboot and reinstall it. Reboot again with Signed Driver Enforcement turned off (easier to just hold shift, rightclick power button on Start Menu, select Restart). Install drivers for the two Merc devices which now show correctly in device manager from Sc0t33's zip file.
0) If you don't already have ZEngine installed, you can get it here all the way at the bottom under ZEngine.
1) In your D:Program FilesIdeazonZEngine copy the Kernel2k directory to preserve an original untampered version.
2) In the Kernel2K dir, rename every file that starts with Alpham or alpham to something else (ex. Alpham1.sys => Merc1.sys).
3) Open the renamed .inf file in a text editor (Notepad++, etc) and do a similar find and replace on 'Alpham' replacing with 'Merc' (or whatever you used), replace all. (some people have reported needing to run their text editor as an administrator)
NOTE: Some people have reported being able to skip steps 4-7. You can try jumping from here directly to step 8. If it doesn't work for you, come back and start at step 4 again.
4) Delete merc12.cat (the security catalog file)
5) Install Windows Driver Kit ( it's going to give you a number of warnings during install that you won't be able to develop drivers since you don't have an IDE installed. Just OK through them... you're not developing a driver)
6) Add the inf2cat.exe installation directory to your PATH variables (Type path in search and select 'Edit environment variables for your account' then select Path in the top window and click edit. Click new then add the directory of your inf2cat.exe file. Mine was in D:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits10binx86. Hit enter, then OK all open windows.)
7) Generate a new .cat file (open a Command Prompt and type: inf2cat/driver:'path' /os:10_X64,10_X86 where 'path' is the directory of merc.inf. So, for me it was inf2cat /driver:'D:Program FilesIdeazonZEngineKernel2k' /os:10_X64,10_X86)
8) Disable Signed Driver Enforcement (step-by-step instructions)
9) In Device Manager locate the entries 'Ideazon Merc MM USB Human Interface Device' and 'Ideazon Merc USB Human Interface Device' (most likely under Human Interface Devices)
10) Right click > update driver > browse computer > Let me pick > Have Disk > Browse > manually select your newly renamed merc.inf. Acknowledge any unsigned driver warnings.
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11) Enjoy a working zMerc again!
Hello,
Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.
I request you to try the following steps:
Go to the manufacturer’s website and search for the latest Windows 10 drivers available
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and then install it by following the instructions given in the website.If this doesn't helps, try installing the drivers in compatibility mode and check if that helps.
a. Download the driver from the manufacturer’s website.
b. Right-click on the driver setup file and click on ‘properties’.
c. Click on the ‘compatibility’ tab and check the box ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’ and select Windows 8 operating system from the drop down menu and proceed with the installation. Once this is done, restart the computer and check if the issue persists
I hope this helps you. If you have any further query in future, feel free to contact us. We will be happy to help you.
Thank you.