I have just bought a kit (K8055) and got problems when trying to connect to my windows x64 system. Windows doesn’t recognise the board and state that there is an error on the HID driver.
When I try to install the <Demo PC soft install\setup.exe> software from the cd provided I get the following error.
<The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.>
Could Velleman provide me with an updated driver for my windows x64 machine and a new so that I can start using the kit I just purchased.
Many thanks
Regards,
P.S. I have tried the full kit on a friends machine (XP SP3) and all works fine.
There is no setup program in this package.
To run the example projects you have to do following:
[color=#000080]Copy the file K8055D.DLL from the folder \DLL_v4.0.0.0 to the \Windows\System32 folder.
In 64-bit environment copy the file to \Windows\SysWOW64 folder.[/color]
[quote]I have just bought a kit (K8055) and got problems when trying to connect to my windows x64 system. Windows doesn’t recognise the board and state that there is an error on the HID driver.[/quote]You can’t run the demo programs if the operating system is not recognizing the card.
The HID driver problem (of the Windows) have to be fixed first.
There are no HID drivers supplied by Velleman. All the drivers needed are included in the Windows operating system.
Thank you for the screenshots.
The driver screens are similar as I got in Windows 7 x64.
The only difference is in the USB View report.
Should look like this:
Thanks for your reply, we both have a working K8055 kit and you confirmed that you have it running on W7x64. Usbview shows different information, especially the “open pipes” settings: 0 Vs 2. I suggest to establish this next:
Does Velleman have a simple system in terms of configuration control which would confirm that we are both running the same usb firmware and proprietary code on the pic? Is there a way to assess this easily? e.g. checksum??
[quote]Does Velleman have a simple system in terms of configuration control which would confirm that we are both running the same usb firmware and proprietary code on the pic? Is there a way to assess this easily? e.g. checksum??[/quote] I’m quite sure the PIC code is the same.
There are no PIC firmware updates made since the release in 2003.
I’ve had the same issue - board (P8055-1) works with Win XP, fails to find drivers on WIndows 7. But after replugging the board into my Win 7 laptop numerous times without success (an HP 4720s), and reading about using a powered USB hub, (which I don’t have), I plugged in an external hard drive with a “T” connector for the USB port. (I reasoned that Windows couldn’t drop power to my external drive, surely!) That didn’t work, but after removing the drive and replugging the P8055, it came up and worked! I now find that I can get the board recognized “intermittently”.
If there is some “close to power limit” issue on the board, or it behaves okay when there is an external powered USB hub, can we not just put a fat capacitor across the USB power and see whether we can help the board survive the spikes and troughs. Someone with some decent hardware debugging tools (i.e. you folk at Velleman) need to take a closer look at what is happening and see if we can make a patch to fix this issue.
UPDATE: I can now get the board recognized fairly frequently: plug it in and let it report failure. Then unplug and quickly re-insert it back into the USB port, and it then works for me. Probably some residual power on the board, it doesn’t fully decay or reset itself, and it works second time.
I have the same issues. I put up the board at work beacause there we have something to test every component and some good stuff for soldering.
After that I’ve tested it on the pc in my work with win7 32bit. Everything was ok and I could turn on all the LEDs 1-8. Now at home nothing is working and here I’ve got win7 68bit. I also got the warning sign on Hardware-Manager HID Device sign. When I connect the board I have power led always on and connection led is also blinking 2-3 times while usb sound from pc.
Has anybody solved the problem jet? Poor that I couldn’t use the board ;(
Oh ok, that is a bit disapointing beacause I have no powered USB Hub and the price for one is like half of the price for the K8055 board. Is there any other posibility to get it to work?
Is there any driver or code to get it working on Mac OS X? beacause than I can use it on my notebook.
