I would be grateful for any help possible with my problem...
I recently upgraded my laptop that I use for PICAXE programming to Windows 8. It 'said' on the box 'all programmes, etc. carried over from Windows 7' and the PC manufacturer 'says' it is upgradeable - that is another story, though (Yes, I know; I'm an idiot...). One of the main things I use the machine for is PICAXE development (probably, the main thing) and now I can't get the AXE027 programming adapter to work. Originally, it wasn't recognised at all, but I reinstalled the drivers (using the windows 7 procedure) and that problem was overcome. However, now I have two associated devices when I look at ports in the editor startup options; the AXE027 on COM 3 which is marked unavailable, and a generic communications port on COM 4 which is available but doesn't work (before anyone questions the hardware it is connected to it is a PICAXE 20X2 circuit on a standard REV-ED board, and it worked just fine with Windows 7) probably because it doesn't have the device type of an AXE027 associated with it. To make matters more frustrating, the entries in the Hardware Manager on the PC seem not to be deletable, and I keep getting a message that I 'must have registry write privileges to delete the device'. This is all being done from an an account that has full administrator privileges.
Anyone got any ideas? I don't really want to down-grade back to Windows 7; it took 3 days to get the laptop working just for normal stuff, and it still won't connect to wifi using DHCP - I have to use a static address and put all the DNS addresses in too.
I recently upgraded my laptop that I use for PICAXE programming to Windows 8. It 'said' on the box 'all programmes, etc. carried over from Windows 7' and the PC manufacturer 'says' it is upgradeable - that is another story, though (Yes, I know; I'm an idiot...). One of the main things I use the machine for is PICAXE development (probably, the main thing) and now I can't get the AXE027 programming adapter to work. Originally, it wasn't recognised at all, but I reinstalled the drivers (using the windows 7 procedure) and that problem was overcome. However, now I have two associated devices when I look at ports in the editor startup options; the AXE027 on COM 3 which is marked unavailable, and a generic communications port on COM 4 which is available but doesn't work (before anyone questions the hardware it is connected to it is a PICAXE 20X2 circuit on a standard REV-ED board, and it worked just fine with Windows 7) probably because it doesn't have the device type of an AXE027 associated with it. To make matters more frustrating, the entries in the Hardware Manager on the PC seem not to be deletable, and I keep getting a message that I 'must have registry write privileges to delete the device'. This is all being done from an an account that has full administrator privileges.
Anyone got any ideas? I don't really want to down-grade back to Windows 7; it took 3 days to get the laptop working just for normal stuff, and it still won't connect to wifi using DHCP - I have to use a static address and put all the DNS addresses in too.
