Did i just fry my audrino? Changed wires now won't connect

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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I had my 1000x1000 X carve up and running just fine… Was going through the motions and getting everything set up. During my first carve i realized when i hit “raise my router” the router would move forward and not up… No big deal right?
I unplug the power supply from the wall (forgot to unplug it from the USB) i swap out the wires and try to start the machine up again. This time i cant connect to easel. Open the case back up and find the Z ground out of the block and touching the case. I plug it back into the block and still not connecting. I remove all the wires and still no connection. Put the wires back to pre-screwup position and still no connection.

I find some information to re-flash grbl on my audrino and go through those steps. About halfway through i hit a roadblock. When trying to run eprom_clear i end up getting an error of “can’t open device . com5 the system cannot find the file specified.” I unplug the gShield and try again… Nothing. I switch USB ports… Nothing. Check to make sure my com port is right… Nothing. Tried uninstalling drivers and reinstalling them… Nothing.

Side note: when everything is plugged in i get a green light on the audrino and 1 on the gShield with 3 blues next to the axis blocks.

Help i am at a loss. It was all working fine then now its not.

edit: forgot to add i have restarted also.

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Hmm. That is odd. Did you buy your Arduino through Inventables? Inexplicable communication losses are somet I mes attributable to using a bricked Chinese counterfeit Arduino.

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Got everything from inventables except for the dewalt 611

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I took a break to play my dogs and came back and now it seems to be working. Maybe my dogs felt left out so they sabotaged it…

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I think mine does that as well :slight_smile:

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I have have had an ongoing issue like this, it happens mostly when the computer stays on for along time. If I shut down and log back in it will reconnect. I talked to Sam at inventables and she mentioned to put Google Chrome on the computer but it didn’t make a difference, so I gave up trying.

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Just an update. Turns out my issue was windows 7. I downgraded to version 2.4 of easel and now everything works just fine.

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I’m wondering if the resolution to the issue was due to reinstalling the driver than actually reverting to an earlier version?