Hi guys. I'm not too happy today. It's been a while since I bought my Arduino101. Guess what? I tried plugging it in today, and it STILL doesn't work. I have to enable/disable it a ton in Device Manager. Most of the time it doesn't work. It usually says this in the device properties status area:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.
I tried updating, reinstalling, etc. the driver. No luck. Reset/Master reset give me some beeping indicitive of device connecting/disconnecting. I know this is a long standing issue for this, but I've returned and replaced the Arduino 3 times now. No luck. None of the other computers I have access to work with it, not Win7 or Win8.1. Why didn't Intel fix this yet? I believe they said they would. Furthermore, why are these STILL on sale?!
If you have replaced the unit 3 times it should at least tell you "ITS NOT THE UNIT".
Code 10 is generic but usually indicates a driver issue.
Reasons for drivers not working can be numerous.
- User does not have the correct permissions and or priveledges to install a driver.
- Antivirus or similar software can prevent system changes.
- Firewall issues where driver and or associates software is not being allowed to update properly.
- Virus or other malware present in system.
- Trying to install a 64 bit driver on a 32 bit system (and occasionally the other way around).
- Previous drivers were not removed properly or cleaned up causing older or wrong drivers to assert themselves.
- Same as (6) but more specifically the main software to use the device in this case the IDE.
- A faulty KB update was installed on a windows OS. (couple of win 10 KB's cause issues with USB devices)
Those are the ones that quickly come to mind and I am sure others could add to the list of reasons.