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[defragster]

Has anyone else managed to inspire the Arduino 1.5.5 IDE to crash and burn like this?

It worked a few times to upload a sketch to a DigiX- now the next day I get this repeated failing.

Came here and searched and decided I'd ask before going medieval on my system.

[defragster]

I didn't get to a solution yet, but I saw this same error message cross posted in DigiSpark: http://digistump.com/board/index.php/topic,1226.0.html

Yesterday my logon went DEAD - no restore points and other odd things - safe mode was okay and I created a new account that worked, but my standard logon would never wake - sat for hours.  I uninstalled some things and no help.  Then did a boot CHKDSK and the wait was less as when I looked it was then up - but I didn't see any errors of note.

Will reinstall Arduino 1.5.5 and DigiX driver and see what happens.

Never found a Windows 8 driver solution either - 32 bits.

[digistump]

RE win 8 driver: http://digistump.com/board/index.php/topic,1084.0.html

[defragster]

Will follow up - my search didn't hit that . . .  just tried again and no single char "8" searching might have caught me.  Also looking to find if I can expect it to work on a 32 bit machine?

[defragster]

DigiX Success on my 10.1" 32 bit Win 8.1 tablet!  Haven't gone back to my Win 7 machine yet.

> Disable Unsigned drivers { Win8.1 Windows 8. Windows8.1 } following these steps:
> http://revryl.com/2013/08/06/install-unsigned-drivers/
(this link may be iffy - the steps are as listed in the other thread)

I did that and hit 3 other AVR boards to get the 1.5.5 drivers installed - then downloaded DigiX and connected and it installed.  Uploaded BLINK and examples\04.communication\ASCIITable and the serial monitor showed my ASCII.

Will copy to the indicated thread

[dfarrell]

The Arduino environment does not seem to support sleep of Windows.  If I walk away from my system for an hour and the system sleeps, the waking up results in this failure.  This is especially true if no serial io is occurring. If I leave the system with serial data dumping to the screen, then it might wake properly.

[gogol]

The crash while uploading is 100% reproducable for me:

I have a program running on the DigiX, which is sending status messages via SerialUSB and a third party terminal program (e.g. putty) connected to it.
At a give point I press reset on the DigiX, the terminal program doesn't realise, that the DigiX is gone.
Now try to upload from the Arduino-IDE and the IDE will crash!

When you try to upload before resetting the DigiX, the IDE realizes, that the COM-port is busy.  After that, the COM-port seems to be in an undefined state.

[digistump]

The newest Arduino IDE 1.5.6r2 is supposed to use a new RxTx library - hopefully it will fix some of these crashes