How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Sean — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:45:30 GMT

I have tried everything. I tried the restoring the firmware using the post by Håkon Alseth, but that resulted in the following error: dfu-programmer: no device present. I then tried using FLIP, but everytime I try to establish a communication link I get the following error: AtLibUsbDfu.dll not found. I can confirm that it is present, because when I go to Help->About Flip it produces a list and AtLibUsbDfu.dll is on that list. I then tried uninstalling nRFgo Studio 1.17.0 and down grading to 1.16.0 and using the procedure outlined by Håkon Alseth, but once again it gave me the error: dfu-programmer: no device found. I got no more options. And in case you're all wondering, I tried the above methods in several different ways, in several different orders, just to make sure, and nothing works. There has to be a way to solve this. This is costing me time and money.

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

nargetdev — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:23:30 GMT

July 17th Edit:

I've tried the method above on multiple computers now. On my bootcamp PC the usb enumerates as AT90USB128 after removing the shorts. How do I "manually upgrade the USB driver before running step 5"? How do I "Point to the driver located in this folder: \Path\to\Nordic Semiconductor\nRFgo Studio\usb_drivers"??

My instinct would say to go to "Device Manager" select the usb device and go to "Update Driver" and select the "usb_drivers" folder but this simply yields: "The driver software is up to date".

When I attempt to do the same procedure on a computer which is natively PC the USB enumerates as "Atmel DFU" but has a little yellow triangle with an exclamation mark.

On both the native PC and on my Bootcamp PC the result of the command: dfu-programmer at90usb1287 flash hex\nRFgoFirmware_6701.hex is... dfu-programmer: no device present

What is the AVR FLIP method? Is there any other method to get moving with my project?? (I'm starting to get pressure coming down on me from above) This is disappointing..

If anybody has any advice or has managed to get anything working I would really really appreciate information.

EDIT: I have managed to upgrade the firmware using the FLIP method following the instructions on this page: www.nordicsemi.com/.../The-firmware-upgrade-failed-on-my-nRGgo-Motherboard.-How-can-I-restore-it

It did take me a couple of tries and the flip program itself was somewhat confusing. If you find yourself in the same predicament I was in do not hesitate to message me and I will do my best to get you rolling.

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Håkon Alseth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:46:58 GMT

This was the old way of re-programming the board, using the flip-drivers. The workaround then is either to use AVR Flip, or upgrade the drivers as stated in the note in my initial post and proceed with the cmd-line calls.

-H

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Ed — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:38:05 GMT

I followed the above but was still not able to update the firmware.

When I jumper the pins and reset it, it showed up as "AT90USB128" but never has any "DFU" in the name. The "dfu-programmer..." command line produces "dfu-programmer: no device present".

I was, however, successful when I used the Atmel FLIP program, selected the 1287 device, and loaded the hex file with it, and programmed the motherboard.

It now shows the latest firmware is present. (ThIs was Win Vista x64)

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Anne van Rossum — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:38:38 GMT

Perfect. The command line method worked fine!

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Håkon Alseth — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:26:32 GMT

Hi Anne,

It is not a normal procedure. We have seen a very high spike regarding this issue in the last weeks, and we just found that this is a bug in nRFgo Studio. For now, the workaround is:

The solution is to either downgrade to 1.16.0 (https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/nordic/Products/nRFgo-Studio/nRFgo-Studio-Win64/14964) and update, or run the update from cmd.exe: Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Nordic Semiconductor\nRFgo Studio and run: dfu-programmer.exe at90usb1287 flash hex/nRFgoFirmware_6701.hex

We're working on fixing this.

Best regards Håkon

RE: How to restore nRFgo motherboard firmware

Anne van Rossum — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:23:38 GMT

I just encounter this myself, straight from the package: "could not start the bootloader on the nrf6310", etc. At several places on this forum people are referred to this thread.

Is this supposed to be the normal procedure if you unbox the nRFgo?