Uno not recognized as USB

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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So I'm afraid I may have nuked my Uno. Last night it was working fine and I was playing around with a couple of DC motors. At first I was driving one motor via an H bridge using the onboard 5V pin as my power supply, and it was performing as I expected. I added a second motor to the H bridge, and shortly thereafter I tried to upload a new program to the board. The Arduino software erred, stating that my COM port wasn't found. I'm thinking maybe I overdrew the board because of the second motor.

Now when I plug in the Uno, the green 'ON' LED near the reset button lights up. However, the Uno doesn't show up in my Device Manager at all anymore. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate as an admin.

Did I kill my board? Is there anything I can do to try and recover it?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Did I kill my board? Is there anything I can do to try and recover it?

Try a different USB port on your PC, or even better a different PC. You may have damaged the USB port on the PC by drawing too much current. The Arduino board has a 500ma polyfuse that tries and protect the PC's USB port from overcurrent but it's a slow acting fuse, and perhaps your PC usb has an internal protection fuse that blew open first.

Lefty

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Yep, tried both another USB on this machine and another machine altogether. Same results. I also tried a different USB cable, so it's got to be something with the board itself, I think.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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possibly you didn't kill it , however if you have ensured it's not making any short-circuits, and no 2 motor's can make your arduino go dead , if wrongly wired then the motor's will not just work that's it,
unplug the arduino>give a restart (Computer)>plug in the Arduino again.

in most of the cases this remedy work's as in mine(had seen such problem a lot many times had one even today)

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There's absolutely nothing connected to the Uno except the USB cable. I've rebooted a couple of times since the issue started, as well as tried a separate machine completely.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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that's something unusual trying with the same arduino IDE pack? or installed fresh IDE on other System's?

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I didn't install the IDE on the second machine. I just connected the Uno to the machine to check if it would be recognized as a USB device. It wasn't.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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sometimes the svchost and other group of viruses run that definitely block up your COM ports like i experienced once using the WINAVR not arduino IDE when i was loading bootloader through my home made Serial Programmer so there could be several MAL-scripts running or would you have messed with the ATmega 8u2 USB chip , any place you tried to have your UNO enter a DFU mode if not then somthing is suspicious with UNO's Hardware.