ESP32 CAM - Failed to upload data from Arduino IDE

[activepro]

Hello all
I really hope you can help me on this issue
I am trying to upload a sketch from Arduino IDE (Latest version) to my ESP32 CAM
The code I am using states to select the board AI Think ESP32 cam which I have done
I have the driver CH340 on com port 4 and also selected this port under the TOOLS menu in Arduino.
I select Partition Scheme: “Hue APP (3MB No OTA/1MB SPIFFS)”

The sketch complies fine but when it comes to connect to the port i get loads of dots and then this error message

A fatal error occurred: Failed to connect to ESP32: No serial data received.

Any idea’s please please, I have been trying to solve this for two days now with 3 separate ESP32 boards and also two different data cables
I suspect it may have something to do with the selected board
I have also booted and reset the ESP32 loads of times
My ESP Chip is an AZ Delivery ESP32-S

[horace]

how have you connected the ESP32 CAM to your PC
I use a esp32-cam-mb USB programmer
under tools what boad do you select from the ESP32 list? I use "AI Thinker ESP32-CAM"

[activepro]

Yes I am using the exact setup as you Horace

[horace]

check your COM is correct using the device manager and unplugging/plugging the ESP32

just connected ESP32 CAM and loaded Examples>ESP32>Camera>CameraWebServer
set up SSID etc and programmed device OK

C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\tools\esptool_py\3.0.0/esptool.exe --chip esp32 --port COM6 --baud 460800 --before default_reset --after hard_reset write_flash -z --flash_mode dio --flash_freq 80m --flash_size detect 0xe000 C:\Users\bb\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\hardware\esp32\1.0.6/tools/partitions/boot_app0.bin 0x1000 C:\Users\bb\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\hardware\esp32\1.0.6/tools/sdk/bin/bootloader_qio_80m.bin 0x10000 C:\Users\bb\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_build_12891/CameraWebServer.ino.bin 0x8000 C:\Users\bb\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_build_12891/CameraWebServer.ino.partitions.bin 
esptool.py v3.0-dev
Serial port COM6
Connecting........_
Chip is ESP32-D0WD-V3 (revision 3)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: 44:17:93:7c:77:0c
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Changing baud rate to 460800
Changed.
Configuring flash size...
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Compressed 8192 bytes to 47...
Writing at 0x0000e000... (100 %)
Wrote 8192 bytes (47 compressed) at 0x0000e000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 13106.9 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 18656 bytes to 12053...
Writing at 0x00001000... (100 %)
Wrote 18656 bytes (12053 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 0.3 seconds (effective 514.6 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 2594912 bytes to 2073523...
Writing at 0x00010000... (0 %)
Writing at 0x00014000... (1 %)
Writing at 0x00018000... (2 %)
Writing at 0x0001c000... (3 %)
Writing at 0x00020000... (3 %)
Writing at 0x00024000... (4 %)
Writing at 0x00028000... (5 %)
Writing at 0x0002c000... (6 %)
Writing at 0x00030000... (7 %)
Writing at 0x00034000... (7 %)
Writing at 0x00038000... (8 %)
...
Writing at 0x00200000... (98 %)
Writing at 0x00204000... (99 %)
Writing at 0x00208000... (100 %)
Wrote 2594912 bytes (2073523 compressed) at 0x00010000 in 49.9 seconds (effective 416.2 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 3072 bytes to 119...
Writing at 0x00008000... (100 %)
Wrote 3072 bytes (119 compressed) at 0x00008000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 3510.9 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.

Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...

when run Serial Monitor displays

...........................
WiFi connected
Starting web server on port: '80'
Starting stream server on port: '81'
Camera Ready! Use 'http://192.168.1.221' to connect
MJPG: 4732B 42ms (23.8fps), AVG: 42ms (23.8fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 4757B 18ms (55.6fps), AVG: 30ms (33.3fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 4727B 20ms (50.0fps), AVG: 26ms (38.5fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 4988B 18ms (55.6fps), AVG: 24ms (41.7fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0

the board setting I used

web server appeared OK

check the COM is correct using the device manager
when I program the device it displays

[activepro]

Horace just used the same example code but I still have an issue with the error “A FATAL ERROR OCCURRED: COULD NOT OPEN COM4, the port doesn’t exist” even when it shows com4 connect as CH340