Picaxe programming cable will not work

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I have made the start here robot and am trying to program it.

I have tried to download the driver for the cable. When I run the self-installing driver that you get from picaxe.com I get to the self-extractor, the progress bar reaches the end and then the window closes and no other window opens. I am not sure whether another window should open but I thought you had to set it up.

When I run the picaxe programming editor and click the check firmware version button it just come up with an error message saying 'serial port error - port not present or already in use!'

I have uploaded a picture of the screen when I get this message

Please help if you can because I would love to start to program my picaxe 28 project board.

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simple version

  1. plug in cable and robot
  2. turn on robot
  3. goto view / options / serial port
  4. scroll down till you find the active port - select, apply
  5. hope i understood you properly
  6. dom

sorry - dom

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Thanks for your reply. But

Thanks for your reply. But in that second tab with the serial port selection, all of them say ‘not available’.

Im guessing this is something to do with the drivers but I’m just not sure how to sort that out.

Once I install the driver and then plug the cable in, I do not get a new hardware found pop up.

Do you have any other ideas?

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Thanks agin for the reply. I

Thanks agin for the reply. I downloaded the driver on another pc running XP and got it all working perfectly. I shall use that computer to program my chip while I try to get my primary computer to work.

Thanks again for your help.