Hank Fletcher
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I'm still having the driver problem with my ICD2. I uninstalled MPLAB 7.52 and installed 8.10. Still nothing. This is a real drag, man.
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Yeah, I just did that. Exact same problem. The really irritating thing is that when I try to update the device driver using the Wizard, I browse for the driver, find it in the MPLAB folder where it's supposed to be, click "open," and then the Wizard tells me it's found a better driver for the device called c:\winnt\inf\usb.inf. Well, there's no c:\winnt\inf folder on my computer, so where is it finding it? I figure if I could just delete usb.inf, that'd be fine by me if it makes the MPLAB driver work.I haven't used Win2K for years, you might try uninstalling MPLAB and installing the newer 8.10 MPLAB
like I said before it's possible the 18F4550 firmware may be a mess.
I did a search for "usb.inf" and it didn't come up. Is that weird? How could the wizard have found it if it isn't on my computer?
I've done that, and I see the usb.inf file now. I still can't figure out what the problem is, though. The driver update wizard seems to insist on using the usb.inf, and even deleting that file does let you force the wizard to choose and use the icd2 driver.Have you got system files hidden. You can make them visible in the folder options.
Mike.
Uh oh, I've got an e-mail back, but not with an answer (it's still "pending"), but a suggestion I phone them up. Either I haven't been descriptive enough, or this can't be good.I've put a ticket into Microchip's technical support regarding the problem. Still waiting to hear back...
If you plugged in the ICD before loading MPLAB then you'll have the Windas driver loaded if you'd let the hardware "Wizard" do it's default thing. Once you've loaded the wrong Windows driver you are screwed and must run the MicroChip cleaner program. Either that, or reformat and reload Windas!The driver update wizard seems to insist on using the usb.inf, and even deleting that file does let you force the wizard to choose and use the icd2 driver.
If you plugged in the ICD before loading MPLAB then you'll have the Windas driver loaded if you'd let the hardware "Wizard" do it's default thing. Once you've loaded the wrong Windows driver you are screwed and must run the MicroChip cleaner program. Either that, or reformat and reload Windas!
Try this link for Regini.exe: (Registry Change by Script):
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads...69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en