AidanHockey5
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3 years ago Hello,
Windows 7 has reached its end of life (EoL) and is therefore unsupported.
I could not recreate your issue on Windows 10. I spooled up a fresh Windows 10 VM with a username that is not "Aidan" and I managed to flash the firmware just fine.
- Make sure the board is receiving 12V and is powered on.
- Make sure that you've got the CH340 drivers installed. You can download them here: https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/8/4/4/CH341SER.EXE
- Make sure your left jumper is in the UP position on your blue pill microcontroller board. https://www.aidanlawrence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/mb_jumper-scaled.jpg
- Make sure you press the RESET button before invoking the programmer.
Everything is working in win10
Looks like that's the answer. Windows 7 is simply unsupported. You might be able to run the flashing script in Windows 7 via Python. View the README.txt file that's included with the standalone and run Flash.py
The error i get is that there are python files missing in c:\users\aiden.... and wont run (windows 7 64bit) Everything is working in win10