Adafruit 954 USB serial cable

The can be used to:
 * Power the Raspberry Pi
 * Have console access via a serial port (built-in Prolific USB emulator and e.g. PuTTY on Windows laptop)

When using the Adafruit 954 USB cable on Windows 7 the Prolific driver seems already be installed, so you could skip this step. Simply connect the USB cable. You will see a device Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port; verify via Control Panel &rarr; System &rarr; Device Manager to get the port number.

The cable can be ordered via internet.

Transparent case for the Raspberry Pi model B+ is too low
There are some problems with the transparent case of Raspberry Pi B+:
 * The case is too low for the ; it bends the circuit pins
 * The latch does not close properly
 * There is no spare hole for the cable

Software problems
Driver problems; this leads system crashes (Blue screens) and potential data loss.

Bug Check: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
This indicates that a kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high. Possibly the Prolific driver contains a bug.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff560244%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Bug Check: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
ACPI problem