Flowcode Support Board

Hi,

we are having trouble with the laptops that our students are using this year. It seems that they can't program an ECIO40 when using FC9 (studentlicense). Also the teachers use the version that the school is providing, but nobody seems to be able to program an ECIO40 when using a HP Probook laptop.
Me personally am using a Dell laptop and evrything seems to work fine. I have no problem programming a microcontroller like ECIO40 directly from FC9.

Any idea what could cause the problems on the students laptops?

Regards,
Theo Staquet
SILA Westerlo (Belgium)

Perhaps this is a driver issue. Here's another thread which might help:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1146

Still no solution.

This is the information I got about the laptops:

HP Probook 445 G8

AMD Ryzen 3 5400U, 10 MB L3 cache, 4 cores
AMD Radeon Graphics
14″ FHD AG UWVA 250 HD
8GB 1D DDR4 3200
720p HD camera
Wi-Fi 2×2 + Bluetooth
3 Super Speed USB Type-A
1 Super Speed USB Type-C
1 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet
1 headphone/microphone combo
1 HDMI
1 AC power
Silver Aluminium
Azerty Keyboard
Microsoft Windows 10

Hi

Unfortunately I bought a couple of ECIO's just at the end of their life, so haven't really done much with them to speak of.

You mention that your laptop has no problem (Dell) just the HPs. What is the problem they are having? Can they be a bit more specific?

Perhaps they could also try and narrow it down a bit?

Using a HP create a simple chart such as a one-second flasher then:-

Compile to C?
Compile to Hex?

If successful in compiling to Hex, can they run mLoader and program that way using the Hex just created?

Hopefully the above may give more clues as to what is going wrong.

Regards

I have found the best way to check the ECIO is first connect the ECIO to the PC via USB.
The LED should be solid lit, is it?
Run mLoader which for a 64-bit pc is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Flowcode v9\data\tools
That should show the ECIO device: The LED on the ECIO should flash while mloader is running