I'm new to Arduino and ordered a 101 for a school project. I did a bunch of searches and have had no luck. Here is what I have tried.
I'm running Windows 7 and when I go to the device manager it says the device is working properly and is on com port 5. I've gone to tools in the Arduino software and it also shows com port 5 along with showing com port 5 at the bottom of the Arduino window.
With he USB cable plugged in the green power light is on. I don't ever see the tx or rx lights come on, even when unplugging the USB cable.
When I go to the update driver in the device manager and browse my computer for driver software I can drill down to the amd64 folder in the drivers folder, but no files show up to select. If I just say ok I get a message that windows was unable to install your Arduino. If I go to let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer and click on the Arduino Uno it seems to load a driver. If I click on Driver details after this it says C:\Windows\system32\usbser.sys, so doesn't appear to be the Arduino.inf file I need. I can see it when I go into the folder through windows explorer, but the device manager doesn't seem to recognize it. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I also tried to use a different computer with the same results.
I get the following error message when I try to upload.
Sketch uses 450 bytes (1%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32,256 bytes.
Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2,039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2,048 bytes.
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x5d
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding