Can't believe you are having this much problem. .. I've loaded AS on 2 lap tops & 3 desktops... most of them have had a least one HD replacement.. my race laptop has been rebuilt twice. Never loaded any drivers... just AS software. .. just load it and it flies... on like... 10 -11 computers.
Its been that easy, just load and play... somethings missing. Back when I had an rc decoder I swapped cables from serial to USB and back... still never had any problem.