JayAuckland
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A couple of days ago my trusty laptop died while I was using the Picaxe Editor. Looks like it was a power system thing... the laptop just went dead. I've transferred all my files to an external drive and for now am using that on an older PC running Windows 7.
I've downloaded what seems to be the most recent picaxe editor - 6.0.9.3 - a slightly later version of what I was running on the laptop i think. After hours of mucking around I've finally got the AXE027 drivers installed, in both the ports and the USB parts of the device manager. The Properties of both say "The device is working properly."
In Picaxe Editor the AXE027 appears on COM port 6. So far so good.
BUT when I connect the cable to a small proto board with an 08M2 inserted, just to check it all out by downloading a simple bit of code (flashing C.2 on and off), the download fails and the editor says it cannot find the hardware on COM6. Power supply is fine, all connections seem fine, doing a hard reset doesn't help and probing the serial in and out pins with a LED (with resistor) doesn't detect any action there while the download is attempted. I've tried several 08m2s and a couple of 14m2s on a breadboard as well for good measure and... nothing: Hardware not found on COM6.
I've moved the cable to two other USB ports but exactly the same thing happens: Hardware not found on COM5 COM3, etc.
The only think I can now think of is that maybe something in the cable got fried when the laptop died. No one in Auckland stocks Picaxe parts these days so a replacement cable will take several days (plus a weekend!) to arrive after online purchase. Before I do that can anyone suggest what else might be going wrong???
Jay (close to tantrum stage)
I've downloaded what seems to be the most recent picaxe editor - 6.0.9.3 - a slightly later version of what I was running on the laptop i think. After hours of mucking around I've finally got the AXE027 drivers installed, in both the ports and the USB parts of the device manager. The Properties of both say "The device is working properly."
In Picaxe Editor the AXE027 appears on COM port 6. So far so good.
BUT when I connect the cable to a small proto board with an 08M2 inserted, just to check it all out by downloading a simple bit of code (flashing C.2 on and off), the download fails and the editor says it cannot find the hardware on COM6. Power supply is fine, all connections seem fine, doing a hard reset doesn't help and probing the serial in and out pins with a LED (with resistor) doesn't detect any action there while the download is attempted. I've tried several 08m2s and a couple of 14m2s on a breadboard as well for good measure and... nothing: Hardware not found on COM6.
I've moved the cable to two other USB ports but exactly the same thing happens: Hardware not found on COM5 COM3, etc.
The only think I can now think of is that maybe something in the cable got fried when the laptop died. No one in Auckland stocks Picaxe parts these days so a replacement cable will take several days (plus a weekend!) to arrive after online purchase. Before I do that can anyone suggest what else might be going wrong???
Jay (close to tantrum stage)