Well I have scoured every inch of the internet in search of an answer to this problem, also got about 12 hours of time into it, which kills me, lol. The USB cable was part of the problem, but now that I can connect, the device shows as unknown device in device manager. Tried safe mode for unsigned drivers, on Windows 10 and turned off completely checking for unsigned drivers on my Windows 7 machine, nothing. Thanks for all the help, until I find another window of time, will have to let this go, darn shame, because I really want this patch. Maybe next week.
Here is a POI I got the other day, kind of fun...
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