Hello, I am new here, a beginner with Arduino and I wish I had joined for a positive discussion, but I am facing a problem with my Arduino Uno R3 board that uses an ATMEGA 16U2 being detected in my laptop. I have installed the newest Arduino IDE 2.3.2 and installed all necessary drivers to my knowledge. I have tried manually installing 'Arduino Uno' under device manager but then this shows up:
I bought a new USB Cable, both my ports are working but when i plug the board in and out there's no sound from my laptop device, which usually does make a noise with other connections. The board lights up when connected but it is not even getting recognised in a different laptop. I have been trying to somehow get this working for the past 3 days but to no avail. I would be very grateful for some guidance, if I have burnt the Arduino in some manner, how do I check it? What other possibilities are there? Please help! Here are some additional screenshots:
Did you try uninstalling the drivers from device manager, restarting the laptop and reinstalling Arduino?
Do you have any reason to suspect you've damaged it?
Maybe someone else can weigh in on this but for some reason the manufacturer in your device manager I don't think is what I usually see. I could be wrong.
And just to be sure, you said you're a beginner (we all were, once), you tried looking for it in the IDE under Boards and you checked it in Ports if so?
Also you made sure to select the correct board Arduino Genuino Uno in the list and not one of the others such as Uno Wifi?
If the names aren't exact, apologies, I'm away from my desk right now.
Thank you for replying :'), yes, I tried uninstalling everything and reinstalling them, including the software and drivers, tried updating my device and then restarted it a couple of times as well. The reason I suspect i damaged it is because I probably tried fixing the other software to driver issues. And since the board is the getting recognised, when I select the supposed 'com3' port in Arduino with Arduino UNO board, the above errors are persistent. What should I do?
Portable apps for USB and serial I/O under Windows
If you are having problems with connecting to your Arduino or communicating with it here are some utilities you may find useful. They all run without needing installation (i.e. they are portable, you can even run them from a memory stick)
USB diagnostics
USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.
USBLogView is a small utility that runs in the background and records the details of any USB device that is plugged or unplugged into your system.
UsbTreeView USB Device Tree Viewer is a lightweight utility that provides detailed technical information regarding all the USB devices you connected.
Serial monitors
Termite is an easy to use and easy to configure RS232 (serial i.e. COM port) terminal. It can also log the communication to a file.
PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. Powerful but not easy for beginners.
