Looks like you are a victim of Prolific's end-of-life for certain pirated part 
numbers.  Any driver later than version 1.4 checks the chip ID and refuses to 
start (Error 10 Cannot Start) for 2303 parts HXA (and probably others).  Easy 
workaround is to MANUALLY  install version 1.4 of the Prolific driver.  When 
cable refuses to start (yellow mark, Error 10) you can then MANUALLY update 
(downgrade) the driver by selecting from the list of installed drivers.  BTW, 
this is a Windows 8 issue, XP apparently never tries to update to the rev 1.8 
driver.  Email me off-list and I will try to remember the details.  The actual 
key-by-key instructions vary depending the OS version.  Perhaps others with 
more current experience can help.

Ken - [email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis L. 
Haarsager
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Elecraft] PC not finding KUSB port

I'm doing firmware updates this weekend, and my KX3 and PX3 went fine after 
installing the device driver using the KXUSB cable and a laptop running Windows 
8.1 Pro 64-bit.  <snip> 

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