I am pretty new to Adruino... I tried the first tutorial the blinking LED, I was able to do the circuit part because I am an electronics student... however I wanted to make some changes in the program(code) so that I can play around with it.... I realized that my board was connected to my laptop just for the power and there was no digital information sent and recieved. My problem is that in one of the steps I had to select the serial port and select something inside it which is under tool. when I go into tools, the serial port button shows up but I can't select it... I tried everything I could find online.. I downloaded the drivers separately from the FTDI website (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm) and tried running it but never worked pleaes help me.. I am using Windows 7 (Home Premium) 64-bit processor , intel premium...
I would really appreciate any of your help.
Thank you
If it is an old one with ftdi you can change the com port in the device manager and probably will work again. Also as alternative I suggest you to test my mod version that will try to fix the issue when it happens: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,118440.0.html
It is like I am selling the mod but in fact I am pretty sure 99% of the problems in this forum are because installation and this issue with serial ports
Thank you for your immediate reply.. I never get to first picture that you have posted... here is where I end up when I unzip the file. ..
Then I extracted and in drivers i don't have any exe files.
this is what it has..
FTDI USB Driver (Folder) > amd64, i386,Static (Sub folders) and buch of diferen files that I dont even know.
There is a big red Download text. It is a "modified" version of arduino that will install the drivers for you (it will ask you in the setup, you check the boards you have and click "Install...")