I sat in the back of a dusty site trailer, watching the blue screen of death flicker. The error message was vague, but the device manager told the real story. A yellow exclamation mark sat ominously over a device listed only as PNP0500 .
If not detected:
The hardware identifier refers to a standard serial communications port (COM1, COM2, etc.) in Windows 10 pnp0500 windows 10 portable