If you ever go to WIN 10, just plug the PR3 or DCS240 into a USB port - Microsoft will load a driver that works just fine. I just did this with a new laptop and a DCS240 - Picked up the imbedded PR3 Xtra and loaded a Microsoft driver - I set the com port in JMRI and it worked! To test this I took and older laptop(with WIN 10) on it and deleted the Digitrax PR3 driver. I then tested with no driver to make sure I could not contack the PR3, and them re-booted the laptop and plugged the USB cable in to a port - 'Ding', it was found and it loaded the Microsoft driver(verified with Device Manager). I set the com port in JMRI and was up and running. Much easier that the 'old' days of force feeding the Digitrax driver from that mini-CD...
Jim
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
thanks Randy. I went back thru the driver download/installation for the umpteenth time and it apears to be working. Next up is trying to speed match some engines.
Here is a Digitrax Tech Depot article on how to install the PR3 with Windows 8
http://www.digitrax.com/static/apps/software/download/18/PR3%20Install-Win8.pdf
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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keep getting an INF error-no digital signature. downloaded the pr3 drivers and followed the instructions to the tee, but can;t get beyond that digital signature thing. did the steps for windows 8 not todo the driver installation, but no help. Any suggestions? after telling digitrax support i was running windows 8, never heard from them again.