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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 05:16 PM
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New Windows 10 laptop.

 

When I plug in my ATmega328P XPlained Mini, it is seen by Atmel Studio, and the COM port appears in Device Manager.

 

But Tera Term will not see the port:

 

With the port specified on the command line:

 

 

Trying to select the port from the menu:

 

My own "ComLed" - as mentioned here - also does not see it.

 

I'll try some more later...

 

An FTDI cable is seen OK.

 

Searching, I found these (duplicates?):

 

https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/...

https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/...

 

Which say the problems was "Eset antivirus" - but I haven't installed that.

 

I had changed the port number from Device Manager (to match the old PC), but changing it back made no difference.

 

Any ideas, anyone ?

 

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 05:21 PM
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Aha!

 

If I 'Run as Administrator', the terminals work OK.

 

Do I need to give some extra privileges to my user account?

 

(but why does it work for the FTDI cable?)

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Posted by jgmdesign: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 05:38 PM
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awneil wrote:
Do I need to give some extra privileges to my user account?

 

Maybe.

 

On some windows10 machines there is your account with Admin privileges, and then there is an ADMINISTRATOR account which actually has even higher properties.  It has to do with the microsoft account Windows tries to force down our throats.

 

awneil wrote:
(but why does it work for the FTDI cable?)

Because FTDI registered with Microsnot their drivers as "Good Guys" is my only explanation.  Sometimes when you install a device it needs to "look online" for a driver and usually it goes to teh Microsnot website.  If teh driver was previously registered with M$ then it will run without fuss.

 

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https://www.ftdichip.com/Support...

 

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 05:47 PM (Reply to #3)
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jgmdesign wrote:
Because FTDI registered with Microsnot their drivers as "Good Guys" is my only explanation.

During the AS7 installation (which I did before plugging-in the XPlained board), there were various driver installations - with checkboxes to "trust stuff from microchip". I ticked them.

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Posted by jgmdesign: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 06:03 PM
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awneil wrote:
During the AS7 installation (which I did before plugging-in the XPlained board), there were various driver installations - with checkboxes to "trust stuff from microchip". I ticked them.

 

Yeah, I fall for that every time too......

 

There are numerous threads about that whole checkbox part.

 

I would check and see how many accounts are on your new laptop  Could be you arent logged in as you might think.

JIm

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I don't like having all of these "accounts"--I have full Office suite (Word, Excel, etc, Microsoft Professional Plus 2019) installed on my machine...though MS is always telling me when I login to anything MS related that I need to "try" office 365.  In fact they make it almost impossible to find the non-365 version on their site.

 

I met with a group online (teams, or some such thing) & had to log in to an account they setup so we could chat....Days later when running a large spreadsheet, It was acting very slow compared to normal...found out I was not using MY office, but some web/remote  versions of their microsoft account, which apparently I was still logged into/or "active" on.  In fact, I believe I had even rebooted my computer once or twice in the interim (not 100% sure about this), yet was still using their office account not mine. 

 

My daughter asked "who are all of these people" on her Alexa, after I had contacted her a few times (the alexa is under my control).  I recognized this out-from-nowhere listing as being all of my phone contacts....it had not been there the prior 6 months, since only 2 names had previously been showing.   

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Posted by jgmdesign: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 06:35 PM
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avrcandies wrote:
My daughter asked "who are all of these people" on her Alexa, after I had contacted her a few times (the alexa is under my control).  I recognized this out-from-nowhere listing as being all of my phone contacts....it had not been there the prior 6 months, since only 2 names had previously been showing.   

 

Yup, Microsoft is 'sharing' data with Amazon.  And if your phone has a link to any kind of account or you used it for a meeting, Teams, or Zoom etc, then your data/contacts is now available to the world.

 

People think I am nuts when I mention this stuff, but I see these comments all teh time, yet no one want to read the fine print.

 

This is why I am setting up a dedicated PC for Teams/Zoom etc, on its own subnet...my vain attempt to keep what I feel is mine.

 

But lets not derail Andys thread from its true issue.

 

Jim

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Posted by gchapman: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 06:36 PM (Reply to #3)
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jgmdesign wrote:
It has to do with the microsoft account Windows tries to force down our throats.
Windows is configurable per standard operating procedure as done locally (IT) or remotely (MSP) or at the OEM.

jgmdesign wrote:
If teh driver was previously registered with M$ then it will run without fuss.
Some Atmel Studio drivers can be an issue.

 

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Posted by meolsen: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 06:49 PM
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If the port is visible in the list you get by running

wmic path Win32_SerialPort get Caption,Description,PNPDEviceID

on the command line, then the driver is fine....

 

Although, since it is listed under Serial Ports, then the driver should be working as expected... 

 

Has something else opened the port? COM ports on Windows cannot be opened with shared access... 

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Posted by avrcandies: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 06:57 PM
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Sometime port  "not found"  means something else is presently using it, or has not released it, if it was previously using it.  I had a serial app that would use a port, but even after the program was terminated, it seemed to  block anyone else from using it (until I rebooted the computer).  So even though the port is "there" is given a confusing error message saying that it is not.

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 07:34 PM (Reply to #5)
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jgmdesign wrote:
Could be you aren't logged in as you might think.

 

It thinks it's a local account, with Admin privilege

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 07:37 PM
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No, nothing else is using the port.

 

If something else had the port open, running the terminal as Admin wouldn't make any difference.

 

 

Caption                          Description             PNPDeviceID
mEDBG Virtual COM Port (COM131)  mEDBG Virtual COM Port  USB\VID_03EB&PID_2145&MI_01\6&1A9AD1BB&0&0001

 

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I had changed the port number from Device Manager (to match the old PC), but changing it back made no difference.

"who" were you when you did this?  admin?  someone else?  Maybe that would make a slight difference at the time of the change.

 

Note: Multiple serial ports cannot share the same COM port number.

  1. Restart your computer.

Note: Even if you change the COM port number back to the original number, you still need to restart your computer.

 

check the one about fax services, of all things, interfering

https://windowsreport.com/unable...

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 09:48 PM (Reply to #13)
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avrcandies wrote:
"who" were you when you did this?

All of this is with the same account - as shown in #11

 

  1. Restart your computer.

Yes, I did that - shutdown, and then power-on again.

 

check the one about fax services, of all things, interfering

https://windowsreport.com/unable...

will do ...

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Posted by awneil: Mon. Oct 5, 2020 - 10:00 PM (Reply to #10)
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avrcandies wrote:
Sometime port  "not found"  means something else is presently using it

No, that shouldn't cause 'not found': the port should still be visible - but attempting to open it would give an error

 

Here we are with the FTDI cable, COM9:

 

 

The TeraTerm in the background currently has COM9 open - hence it appears in the title bar.

 

The TeraTerm in front of it is not connected, and I have opened the Serial Port dialogue: you can see that COM9 is listed - even though it is already in use by the other TeraTerm. 

If I click 'New Open', I get:

 

 

which tells me that the port is already in use.

 

This is different from the case with the XPlained - where Tera Term is saying 'Not Found' (see #1).

 

EDIT

 

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avrcandies wrote:
check the one about fax services

I checked, and it showed that the service  was not started.

 

But now TeraTerm has decided that it will open the port:

 

 

surpriseangrycrying

 

 

 

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I don't have much trouble with the serial ports.  Some times I need to disable them and then re-enable them.  I think it's when I make a change to the port, like change the port number.

 

Anyway, the disable then enable thing is worth a try.

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COM One hundred thirty-one?  Ermagerd.  surprise

 

avrcandies wrote:

Days later when running a large spreadsheet, It was acting very slow compared to normal...found out I was not using MY office, but some web/remote  versions of their microsoft account, which apparently I was still logged into/or "active" on.

 

I wonder what that would do to my severely data-limited (and 600ms ping time) satellite connection.  I think I'm not going to use windows 10 ever (or avoid it for as long as I can).  S.

 

PS - I find LibreOffice does everything 'office' I need.  Then again, I'm not in collaboration with teams run by a PHB with Mordac in charge of the IT, either.  S.

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steve17 wrote:
I don't have much trouble with the serial ports. 

Neither do I - usually.

 

But, as I said, this is a new PC. It's also the first time I've worked on Win 10.

 

Some times I need to disable them and then re-enable them

But if that were the issue, how would running as Admin help?

 

Scroungre wrote:
COM One hundred thirty-one? 

 

https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/ooo-err-what-comes-next

 

 

 

 

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 09:05 AM (Reply to #16)
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awneil wrote:
now TeraTerm has decided that it will open the port

I've restarted the PC since then, and TeraTerm can still open the port.

 

And Jim's simple serial tester - which had also been unable to see it before.

 

So the problem (or, at least, its symptoms) has gone away - but I have no idea what the problem was, nor what "fixed" it.

 

frown

 

I'll mark this as the solution for now - as I'm no longer having the issue - but will update if anything becomes clearer ...

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Posted by ron_sutherland: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 07:10 PM
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I think I have had a USB3 hub (or maybe it was the host controller) lock up on my desktop and had to power down the stand-by (unplug) for a while to get it to start working again. At the time, I figured it was CMOS latch-up, but later I learned it had a firmware update.

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 07:39 PM (Reply to #21)
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It was in a USB2 port, and the USB mouse & KB kept working.

 

And a hardware fault like that wouldn't have been overcome by running as Admin.

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Posted by gchapman: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 07:48 PM (Reply to #21)
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Sometimes the issue isn't with the USB hub but in the USB host (software defect, fault is an incorrect token, apparent failure with one USB hub)

USB Hub Bug Hunting & Lessons Learned (PJRC)

 

USB hubs can be qualified wrt Windows 10.

Windows Hardware Compatibility Program | Microsoft Docs

 

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 10:48 PM (Reply to #23)
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but, again,  such things wouldn't have been overcome by running as Admin?

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Posted by gchapman: Tue. Oct 6, 2020 - 10:59 PM (Reply to #24)
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Yes though any USB hub issues more likely will be due to software defects (USB HCI driver, from the PC OEM)

 

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Posted by steve17: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 01:00 PM (Reply to #19)
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awneil wrote:



 

Some times I need to disable them and then re-enable them

But if that were the issue, how would running as Admin help?

 

On my Win10 pro, it's not obvious how to make changes to the devices when running as a lowly user.  I need admin privileges and Windows doesn't give me a chance to enter the admin password if I right click on Start, then click on Device  Manager. 

 

I do it by putting a button for "computer management"  (compmgmt) on the start menu.

 

Right click on it and click "pin to start".

 



 

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Posted by awneil: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 01:50 PM (Reply to #26)
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I create a Desktop shortcut to Device Manager:

 

 

 

C:\Windows\System32\devmgmt.msc

 

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Posted by ki0bk: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 01:53 PM
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On Win10, just right click the start window icon, and select device manager!

 

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Posted by steve17: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 02:29 PM
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I explained that in my previous post.  That allows me to look but not touch.  How come you got a better Win10 than me.  smiley

 

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Posted by awneil: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 02:50 PM (Reply to #29)
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with the desktop shortcut, you can specify 'Run as Admin' (although I haven't had to):

 

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Posted by obdevel: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 02:57 PM
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Anything in the Windows event viewer ? I don't have a VM spun up at the mo to advise which area to look in.

 

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Posted by ki0bk: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 03:40 PM
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steve17 wrote:
How come you got a better Win10 than me.

Mine:

Is that "better" I don't know....

It is what it is.

Jim

 

 

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Posted by awneil: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 03:44 PM (Reply to #29)
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steve17 wrote:
How come you got a better Win10 than me.

What Win-10 do you have - 'home' or 'pro' or ... ?

 

But the message is about your (insufficient) user privileges ...

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I see that my current Win10 allows me to do the right click on Start, click Device Manager.   Then right click on the port, click properties, click "Change settings" pn General tab, etc..  I don't think you could do that when I started using Win 10. 

 

In any event, getting admin privileges first gets you there quicker.  Just right click on the port, and there it is.  Of course I can't guarantee this next week.  smiley

 

 

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Posted by steve17: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 04:34 PM
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awneil wrote:
with the desktop shortcut, you can specify 'Run as Admin' (although I haven't had to):
If you put computer management (compmgmt.msc) shortcut on the start menu, you can get more than Device Manager.  I guess Device Manager is what I use most though.

 

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Posted by awneil: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 04:40 PM (Reply to #35)
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steve17 wrote:
  I guess Device Manager is what I use most though.

It's certainly what I use most - hence the direct shortcut to it.

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Posted by steve17: Wed. Oct 7, 2020 - 07:53 PM (Reply to #30)
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awneil wrote:

 

 

with the desktop shortcut, you can specify 'Run as Admin' (although I haven't had to):

 

 

 

You can make a start menu button to always do the "run as admin" and request the admin password.  If I don't set it up, I forget and then I have to start over..  To set that up, right click the button.  Then click More, then click "Open file location".  That will give you a Windows Explorer that points to the shortcut.  Right click the shortcut, click Properties, Advanced.  Check "Run as administrator".

 

 

 

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