picaxe will not load

[johnnydeerhunter]

When you install the driver software on your computer, save it to your desktop. Then when your computer needs to find the driver software when you set it up its easierfor your computer to find.

The program is on desktop now but computer still cant locate it.

There should be an option to do a manual search for the program, then just go to the desktop.

[rick]

Tbass, could not us you file, It sent my laptop into overdrive. Had to shut it down to get it to stop showing blank page after blank page.I think I will delete every thing and buy the cdrom. Maybe that will work.

[tbass]

Figures. I wasn't sure how bad it would be for folks who are not members of that share site. 54MB is too much to email.

[rick]

Thanks for the help any way. Been fooling with program,I Keep getting error (hardware not found on com 3) have tried every USB outlet ,still get same error, any ideals

[Willy]

Not sure if this will help you or if you already looked at it, but it usually takes quite a bit of fumbling around to get it to work.

AXE027 PICAXE USB CABLE MANUAL

[buckshot164]

Try to scan for usb cable. If it comes up with a different port change to that port. This is found in the options part of the options. Now pick serial port. You should then see scan for usb cable.

[tbass]

Try it again Rick. I got it uploaded to my own server. No bs popups and ads to fight with there. Once downloaded to where you want it, right click and select "extract here". Then when you plug in the cable and turn on the picaxe board, it should detect it and ask about drivers. Choose the option to select you driver and select the "USBSerialDrivers" folder and click OK.

http://www.patrailcams.com/files/USBSerialDrivers.zip

[rick]

tbass, tried your file no go, it seams I can not access any zip files do to the bug I got for the other site.
Can I put it in documents and save.

[tbass]

You should be able to put it in there just fine. Im not real sure how a bug would affect unzipping a file though?

[rick]

not sure myself , I have other zip files and when I try to access them my laptop goes nuts.
back to your file, sould I open or save after downloading I saved it last time but deleted it to see if I could get rid of the bug.