Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

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  • bigbeark
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Jan 2010
    • 661
    • Canada
    #1

    Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

    I attempted to install a wireless Driver for my D-Link Xtreme N Dual Band USB Adapter on a Windows 8.1 desktop. Windows disallowed the install, even though I had downloaded the Driver from the D-Link website. The message advised me to go back to the D-Link website and get a "digitally signed" driver.

    There is only one Driver for Windows 8 in the D-Link site. I guess this is an older wireless card and D-Link does not want to pay MS to approve the Driver.

    Is this an issue for Windows 7 as well?

    I built this machine so my wife could do her genealogy program.

    Since then I have gotten her genealogy program to run under Linux.

    The D-Link card won't run under Linux without a lot of diddling around so it's just about useless.

    So much for Windows 8 and D-Link!
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    • eccerr0r
      Solder Sloth
      • Nov 2012
      • 8663
      • USA
      #2
      Re: Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

      I can't really blame MS. They are tired of people blaming them for people who write bad drivers and the end user blames Windows for the crash when really it's the poorly written driver...

      I thought that driver signing was done since XP, but at least XP I recall it was possible to override.

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        • Uranium-235
          Comrade Glimmer
          • Aug 2007
          • 5042
          • US
          #3
          Re: Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

          use windows update and see if it offers a generic wireless chip driver from M$
          Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
          ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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            • diif
              Badcaps Legend
              • Feb 2014
              • 6978
              • England
              #4
              Re: Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

              You can disable driver signing to install it.
              Hold shift and shutdown the PC
              On reboot click troubleshoot and then advanced options, then startup settings.
              F7 should be the key to disable driver signature enforcement.
              Reboot your PC and you should be able to install.

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                • Uranium-235
                  Comrade Glimmer
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 5042
                  • US
                  #5
                  Re: Windows 8.1 -Digitally signed Drivers?

                  yeah but every time it will disable the device if you DON'T do that, here is a guide that should make it permanent, of course this is windows and it probably wont' work for some stupid reason

                  http://www.isunshare.com/windows-8/h...8-and-8.1.html
                  Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                  ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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