Arduino Mega 2560 detecting issue

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Hi, I bought an Arduino Mega 2560 from Elegoo about a month ago. I know that is not "original", but i can confirm that Elegoo products are good.

Anyway, it's from yesterday that my computer doesn't recognize this board, i don't know why. I checked and there are no shorts between 5V and GND and the board works.

The cable and the USB ports of my computer works, I connected another board and the computer recognized it. Also, other devices can't detect it.

Can someone help me with this problem? I think is a problem related to the driver.

Thanks.

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How do you know the board works?

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Giving it power with a 12 Volt battery, it runs the code that I uploaded to it yesterday.

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Try the loopback test:

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Since the board is not recognized, I'm sure the loopback will fail.

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I really can't do the test if I can't even get the board to communicate with the computer.

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Absolutly true.
I don't think I can help.

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Are there drivers for this Arduino?

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They are part of the IDE

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More than likely the USB to UART IC (ATmega16U2, the little IC) was damaged but the Mega2560 is still OK.

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