I want to share an interesting information for you

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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So I've been using the arduino micro for the past month, and suddenly ran into this issue while trying to upload my code to my board. There are a couple of things:

  1. My device manager does not recognize the port for the arduino micro. I plug in anything else other than the micro and can establish a connection.
  2. When the arduino is plugged in, only the blue light is lit, and not the green one or any other light unless i reset it.
  3. When I do reset the board, it blinks for a couple of seconds and then goes out.

Honestly have no clue what's going on and whether I should buy another micro and how I can avoid this happening in the future

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Just to make sure, you're talking about Arduino Micro — Arduino Official Store?

In device manager, observe what happens when you press and release reset. It should give you a bootloader port for a few seconds. If so

enable "verbose output during upload" in file->preferences
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upload the blink example
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when you see something like below, press and release the reset button

Sketch uses 4128 bytes (14%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28672 bytes.
Global variables use 149 bytes (5%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2411 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2560 bytes.
Forcing reset using 1200bps open/close on port COM26
PORTS {COM3, COM4, COM26, } / {COM3, COM4, COM26, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, COM26, } / {COM3, COM4, COM26, } => {}