hippy
Ex-Staff (retired)
A great many people use PICAXE chips and AXE027 without encountering any problems at all. That doesn't mean there won't be some problems and when there are we will do our best to help people resolve their issues.How can a good company allow this to happen with their product?
Why must it be so tedious and take several confusing software steps to get downloads to their product?
It is unfortunate that cable drivers have to be installed but that is just the way it is with Windows. Installing the drivers should be no more tedious or confusing to installing any other USB drivers and for most people it proves not to be. Again, we will help as best we can when people do encounter problems installing the AXE027 drivers.
From your earlier post where you did successfully succeed in downloading to your PICAXE it appears that this is not a cable driver issue. It appears that the issue may have been from using a jack socket direct to breadboard. That you seem to be using breadboard only emerged late in the day and if this were known earlier we and other members may have been able to say that was possibly, even likely, the cause of the issues you are having.
Using an AXE029 should resolve any issues with using breadboard. It hasn't so we now need to move on and figure out why that is.
It could be as simple as having left the 22K/10K download interface in place which would be needed with a socket on a breadboard but is not needed when using the breadboard adapter. It could be that there is some wiring or configuration issue in connecting the adapter. It may turn out to be something else.
The best way to proceed is to understand exactly what you have, know how it's wired and methodically go through what is working and isn't. The more you can help others the more they will be able to help you. If you could provide photographs of how you have things connected and wired on the breadboard that will help.