Remember: persistence is key. If the automatic installer fails, the manual "Have Disk" method nearly always succeeds. Keep a copy of the official hwusbser.inf files in your toolkit, and you will never be stranded with a useless "Unknown Device" again.

: If a device won't boot, technicians often short two "test points" on the motherboard to force it into USB COM 1.0 or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 mode.