Thanks for the reply William. I was hopeful that maybe I was doing something dumb or perhaps just missing something that someone here would be able to easily pickup on and point out to me. I've already started downloading installers for the software I use frequently in order to have a (hopefully) quick and easy reinstall this weekend. I intend to image my OS drive after the reinstall to make things easier the next time this occurs. I do have a separate drive (not just partitions) for my OS and most frequently used programs so I shouldn't lose any important data. If I could convince my fiancee that I need a 5th computer I'd love to have a dedicated machine for development, but until then I suppose I'll have to live with my general purpose desktop machine. I do have a bad tendency to download new software just to play around with it though. Maybe I'll try to be a little more selective about what I install next time around :)
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:11:09 UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > Unfortunately, I do not know anyone who could possibly troubleshoot this > problem without being at the keyboard. Your install is old, and is probably > broken in one way or another. > > I have personally experienced similar issues with the same version of > Windows, and my own recourse is just to reinstall. One thing you can do to > help facilitate this is to keep the OS separate from your data ( e.g. two > partitions, 1 for OS, one for data ). It wont keep the OS from eventually > loosing its mind, but it should keep your data safe, and make it very > simple to reinstall. > > Also, for the drivers, I have no idea who actually wrote them but they > seem to be a bit inexperienced with windows drivers. As there should be an > option to remove existing old drivers. The problem here is when you update > your BBB sometimes Windows views the hardware differently, and has no idea > how to interact with it. So, you're required to reinstall the drivers, > while previous versions stay installed. Confusing Windows even more > eventually until it just starts to silently fail. > > The last time I personally reinstalled was fairly recently. Just before I > did however, I booted into safe mode, and did some investigation. Between > the two BBB's we have several MSP430 launchpad's and perhaps an old M3 > stellaris dev board. I had 10 + old drivers still installed but not being > used. > > Further advice would be to limit what you install on your development > workstations. The standard K.I.S.S methodology. > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM, ITFK <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> If anyone can provide any insight here I'd definitely appreciate it! I'm >> strongly considering just reformatting my PC but would prefer to avoid that >> solution for the time being if possible. >> >> On Monday, 7 July 2014 21:09:33 UTC-4, ITFK wrote: >>> >>> I purchased a Beaglebone Black (rev. A6) at the end of last year and was >>> highly unsuccessful in getting the board up and running on my desktop PC. >>> Unfortunately, due to work and grad. school commitments I haven't made time >>> to pursue this board any further until now. >>> >>> Now onto the actual problem... I am unable to connect to the default web >>> server over the USB connection on my desktop PC. Up until recently I was >>> able to get the BBB mounted to my PC, however, after some tweaking last >>> night I am now unable to do that either. I only tried very briefly to >>> connect via the RJ45 connector on the board and was unsuccessful in that as >>> well. I will say that I am able to connect to the BBB over USB on my laptop >>> very quickly and easily so I really don't expect this to be a hardware >>> issue. >>> >>> My desktop PC is a Windows 7 64-bit machine that hasn't seen a fresh >>> install in probably 2-3 years. In that time I've run a couple of different >>> development boards (Arduino and a couple of simple PIC setups) plus a ton >>> of other random peripherals. I also currently connect to the internet >>> through a VPN and installed a TAP driver to do so. I have a VM setup >>> through VirtualBox which has an entry in the network adapters section of >>> the device manager labeled "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". I guess >>> the takeaway here is that I've been using this install for a few years now >>> and have install all kinds of different device drivers for various >>> peripherals that may be conflicting with my BBB. My laptop on the other >>> hand is a new (<1 year old) Dell which is also running Windows 7 64-bit but >>> has had far less connected to it. >>> >>> As of early last night I was able to connect the BBB via USB to my >>> desktop PC and see the BBB mounted to my PC. There were entries in the >>> device manager for the Beaglebone (under Portable Devices), the Gadget >>> Serial (under Ports COM & LPT), and the Linux RNDIS Ethernet gadget (under >>> Network Adapters and shows up as Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget #2 for >>> some reason). The RNDIS entry showed device error 10 saying that the device >>> was not able to start. I have installed the drivers through the BONE_D64 >>> executable as well as by trying to manually update the driver and point it >>> to the RNDIS driver located at F:\Drivers\Windows\src\files\RNDIS. >>> Later last night I tried uninstalling all of the BBB entries I could find >>> within the device manager (the three I listed above) and used bcdedit to >>> allow the installation of digitally unsigned drivers thinking that perhaps >>> Windows was blocking the install somehow. I restarted my PC, installed the >>> drivers, re-enabled driver integrity checks with bcdedit and restarted my >>> PC once again. This was unsuccessful and I was still unable to get the >>> Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget to start properly. >>> >>> I also tried uninstalling all of the drivers, restarting, installing >>> Code Composer Studio 5.5.0, and restarting again in the hopes that the >>> software would be packaged with a digitally signed set of drivers that >>> would run properly on my machine. Again, this was met with no success and I >>> was still unable to connect to the BBB's internal web server. >>> >>> Lastly, I tried downloading and flashing the BBB with the latest >>> Angstrom image to see if maybe there was some weird interaction between the >>> particular version of Linux on my BBB and my PC (despite it seeming >>> unlikely due to the error with the RNDIS gadget). This last step was again >>> unsuccessful, but I am still able to connect over USB to the BBB's >>> webserver on my laptop. >>> >>> I'd really like to solve this issue asap but I am out of ideas. I will >>> probably be reinstalling Windows in about a month once my new SSD is no >>> longer on back order. I am hoping that there is a solution someone else >>> knows of that will get me up and running faster than that though. Working >>> on my laptop is an option but my desktop has far more RAM which makes it >>> much more appealing when I am running a VM to develop code for the BBB. >>> Hopefully I've provided enough information for someone to give me an idea >>> of what else I could try. Thanks in advance for your help guys! >>> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
