# Allen-Bradley driver failure after upgrade to 8.1.4

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allen-bradley-driver-failure-after-upgrade-to-8-1-4/45953>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allen-bradley-driver-failure-after-upgrade-to-8-1-4/45953 "2021-04-23T12:16:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allen-bradley-driver-failure-after-upgrade-to-8-1-4/45953/1 "2021-04-23T12:16:04Z")

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We upgraded to 8.1.4 and found that a problem occurred with all our Allen-Bradley devices. We are using

- A-B CompactLogix (Legacy)
- A-B Logix Driver
- A-B ControlLogix (Legacy)
- A-B SLC

If we use the gateway’s OPC Quick Client we can see tag values.  
The tag browser is reporting “Bad failure” for each tag.

- I’ve upgraded to 8.1.5 to see if there was a patch but there was no change.
- There is nothing related to the A-B driver in the nightly changelog.
- There doesn’t seem to be anything related in the error log.

Has anyone any ideas?

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allen-bradley-driver-failure-after-upgrade-to-8-1-4/45953/2 "2021-04-23T14:04:23Z")

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FYI, we are using 8.1.4 with no issues, only using latest Logix drivers, no legacy.

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**Author:** ![AnthonyF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@AnthonyF](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AnthonyF)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allen-bradley-driver-failure-after-upgrade-to-8-1-4/45953/3 "2021-04-26T02:00:29Z")

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We’ve had some trouble using the legacy drivers on a v20 CompactLogix, switched over to the A-B Logix Driver and had no issues since.  
This was on version 8.1.0 and have not tried a legacy driver since, but v8.1.4 is happy with the other driver.
