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When I install the drivers on my own machine, Windows won't start them because they're unsigned. Bypassing driver signing works fine. I think I tried the ones from the win update repo and it didn't work.

You should download the drivers from Prolific directly. They include a utility that will tell you if you have a "genuine" Prolific chipset. A lot of the cheaper cables from China were using fake chips and Prolific disabled them from installing in Windows. You'll get the Code 10 error message in Device Manager.

In Windows 8.1 you can't even use the Prolific adapters unless it's a specific chipset. FTDI seems to be a more reliable chipset for USB-serial conversions.

Tried my USB-Serial adapter and it automatically downloaded drivers from Windows Update. Now FreeSCAN can see the scanner, and audio recording is working great.

Who knew this no name adapter would work better than an actual serial port.

Good deal. BTW, I forgot to remind you to check for a BIOS update. Dell is pretty good about publishing updates regularly.

Go to their support site and you can search by model:

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04?c=&l=&s=bsd