Microphone marked as "driver not available" despite not needing driver

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I have an Samson Q2U, just bought. When I plug it in through USB, in settings it says "driver not available" in device manager it shows an error: "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)There are no compatible drivers for this device."It is shoved under other devices in both settings and device managerManufacturer does not have a driver for the microphone and clearly states that it does not need a driver to function. The microphone is recognized and works fine (without driver error) on another Windows 10 device and a MacOS device. In details on working devices, it shows driver

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