rcouto 4 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Similar issue here with the MSP-EXP430F5529 development board. My Windows 8 machine cannot recognize the driver in the device manager. My other TI development boards work just fine. This MSP-EXP430F5529 seems to have a weird driver requirement. I tried almost everything. I downloaded and tried the MSPEXP430F5529UE 1_31_00_00 I upgraded CCS to the latest version. I tried using the .INF from MSP430WARE. I rebooted Windows to accept unsigned drivers and that had nothing to do with it. I called TI's support line and they were no help. Furthermore they took my info down and promised to call back and they never did. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Ricardo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jpnorair 340 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 rcouto: the EXP5529 has a built-in SBW programmer, so you can use that with an MSP430 flasher utility of your choosing if simply your goal is to reflash. On that note, make sure you are plugging-in to the correct USB. Secondly, I have had issues with the EXP5529 board *hardware* myself. There are some poorly design internal routes that seem to crack after some period of the normal poking-around that happens with dev kits -- word to the wise: use fatter traces for internal layers, as the copper is usually thinner and more frangible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcouto 4 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Hi jpnorair, Thanks for the feedback. I do have the board plugged on the EZ430-Emulation side with the power selection switch to eZ. The board gets power and the preloaded demos work just fine. I wanted to use the on board emulation/debugger. Was not planning on using SBW. If only TI had a driver that worked correctly under Win8 Thanks, Ricardo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jpnorair 340 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 rcouto: the MSP430F5529 USB features are available through the USB port *not* attached to the programmer. The programmer has a USB port, and all it is good-for is programming as eZ430 (eZ430 is a SBW programmer, by the way). Moreover, there are internal traces in the board that get stressed by activations of the switch. It's quite possible that you've broken the traces for programming. To paraphrase Didier Drogba, the electro-mechanical design of the EXP5529 board is "a f---ing disgrace." RobG 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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