My Arduino does not appear in COM ports on device manager or arduino

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My arduino pro micro was working fine until recently, I had uploaded multiple sketches over about a year. Recently, I started tinkering with a button (I worked mostly with a serial interface beforehand) and an LED light. I fried a few of these LEDs using power directly from the VCC pin of my arduino into a breadboard. I read that sometimes putting power into the reset pin will help, but there is no noticeable change with the onboard LEDs (which remain on). I can still use the arduino for power for the breadboard, but I cannot upload any new sketches, which is a problem.
I am using Windows 10 64 bit and have reinstalled the arduino IDE, which (I think) should have reinstalled the drivers for the arduino.

Thanks,
James

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Hi
Have you already tried in another computer, could be a windows driver problem...

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I have now tried it completely disconnected from the breadboard, and no such luck. The device still does not appear in device manager. Thanks for your help guys, I'll just buy a new one as they're so cheap.

Thanks :slight_smile: ,
James