ESP32-WROOM-32U board or port not found

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Hi, I am fairly new to electronics and I have just some experience with using Arduino Uno, where I have just been doing some basic stuff with it and a school project were I made an alarm clock.

I have now wanted to take it a step further, and I have bought an ESP32-WROOM-32U module. I followed this article i found here to set it up with Arduino IDE:
https://samueladesola.medium.com/how-to-set-up-esp32-wroom-32-b2100060470c#:~:text=Download%20the%20ESP32%20Board,%2Fdl%2Fpackage_esp32_index.json. and I have downloaded the esp32 by Espressif Systems on Arduino IDE, and I have also downloaded the CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP Drivers for my computer to be able to read the ESP32 board. I then proceeded to test it with a simple blink test code, I selected the ESP32 Dev Module as the board, plugged in the ESP32-WROOM-32U to my laptop and it did not find the board or port

Now I do not know it did not find it because it is a ESP32-WROOM-32U instead of an ESP32-WROOM-32, now as I understand it (I may be wrong) the module that I have is the same as all the others only that the antenna is placed on the top of the board instead of being integrated in the PCB. Maybe the problem instead is that I need to do something with the drivers, I do not know.

So I am pretty lost, because im not that good at this stuff yet, and I wondered if anybody else knows the answer, as I have looked up other solutions to my problem but I have not found any yet.

Please help
Thanks

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The choice of the board should not make a difference to the board detection.

You don't mention which operating system you are using but what does your operating system think of the board? Does it recognise it? If not, the IDE will also not see it.

One possible cause can be the cable; make sure that your cable is a data/sync cable and not a charge-only cable. Charge only cables are often supplied with power banks and Bluetooth speakers.

Why not a name that more closely resembles the name of your board?

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I am using Windows 11, and I do not know if the cable is a data/sync cable or a charge cable, and how can I check which type it is?

Also i tried to find a name that closely resembles the name of my board more, but I guess the closest I could find was "ESP32-WROOM-DA Module"

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If you have a cellphone that has the same connector, use the cable and Windows should recognise it and allow you to download e,g, the pictures.

I'm not an ESP32 user so can't quite advise which board you should select; it just looked a bit strange that you did not select that board.

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Ok, so I do not have a cellphone that has the same connector, but I plugged a controller in and windows recognized it as a unit. Does this mean the cable is a charge type cable instead of a data/sync cable?

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No matter what, with a data/sync cable, it should show up in Device Manager as a COM port.

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If windows recognises your controller, the cable is a data/sync cable and it should work.

What does Windows device manager think of your board; any yellow triangles when you connect the board?

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