Steve2381
Senior Member
Now deep breath... lets not rant...
I have had to finally abandon my Picaxe. I just cannot justify the maddening amount of time I spend faffing around with drivers trying to get my computer to see the IC's.
Again, this morning at work, the latest programming software was showing the device on the left hand side of the screen, and all was well in device manager... yet it threw up comm port unavailable when I tried to uplaod - no matter how many re-installed, port changes etc we tried.
Tested the lead - all fine.
Very simple code, uploading to an 08m2 (and we tried numerous chips)... via an Axe027 to an Axe091 board (I think that is the number of the dev board).
I have 2x Axe027 leads, and I get this issue on a total of 5 different laptops and PC's. I had to give up in the end and go home to grab some Arduino mini pro's - bang, code written and uploaded in 20 minutes.
I just don't understand why these chips can be so problematic when it comes to the drivers. Even my shiney new 3k Asus laptop cannot deal with the drivers and I have to constantly unplug the programming lead, delete the drivers, re-install the drivers, reboot the Picaxe programmer...
Maddening
I have had to finally abandon my Picaxe. I just cannot justify the maddening amount of time I spend faffing around with drivers trying to get my computer to see the IC's.
Again, this morning at work, the latest programming software was showing the device on the left hand side of the screen, and all was well in device manager... yet it threw up comm port unavailable when I tried to uplaod - no matter how many re-installed, port changes etc we tried.
Tested the lead - all fine.
Very simple code, uploading to an 08m2 (and we tried numerous chips)... via an Axe027 to an Axe091 board (I think that is the number of the dev board).
I have 2x Axe027 leads, and I get this issue on a total of 5 different laptops and PC's. I had to give up in the end and go home to grab some Arduino mini pro's - bang, code written and uploaded in 20 minutes.
I just don't understand why these chips can be so problematic when it comes to the drivers. Even my shiney new 3k Asus laptop cannot deal with the drivers and I have to constantly unplug the programming lead, delete the drivers, re-install the drivers, reboot the Picaxe programmer...
Maddening