I can not program the NRF52840 with the programmer software on windows 8.1

[Nothoro]

I can not program the NRF52840 with the programmer software on windows 8.1. However when I run a virtual machine in oracle virtual box using windows 10 it works. I would rather use windows 8.1 for various reasons. As an additional note, I had a similar problem with WOR (Windows on Raspberry pi), it can only be written to USB through windows 10, so I use a VM to run 10 in those cases. I have used this scheme on different machines, so I know its not specific to the hardware. I noticed on your programs report that it says ia32 when Im using a 64 bit version of 8.1 on a 64 bit machine as well.

The programmer gives the the following detail when I select my devices drop down list when it fails:

# nRFConnect System Report - 2022-08-06T05-44-34.336Z

- System:     HP HP Notebook
- BIOS:       InsydeH2O CCB.03.75.20F.08
- CPU:        1 x AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics 1.8 GHz 4 cores (4 physical)
- Memory:     5.8 GB free of 7 GB total
- Filesystem: C: (NTFS) 300 GB 39.3% used

- OS:         Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise (6.3.9600) Windows ia32

- Versions
    - kernel: 6.3.9600
    - git: 
    - node: 14.16.0
    - python: 
    - python3: 
    - nrf-device-lib-js: 0.4.11
    - nrf-device-lib: 0.11.8
    - nrfjprog DLL: 10.15.4
    - JLink: JLink_V7.58b

- Connected devices:
    - F6F97E669C4A : undefined

[Jared]

Hi there,

Exactly what error do you get and are you using nRF Connect Programmer or nRF Command Line Tools?

I'm pretty sure that we don't test Windows 8 when develop our programming sw. Also, note that EOL of Windows 8.1 is scheduled for January next year, so you might have to consider using a newer version of Windows either way.

regards
Jared 

[Nothoro]

The NRF Programmer error shows the error that I pasted above. I will connect the dongle to my NRF52480  DK via Win 8.1 tomorrow afternoon and report what it says to you. Its early now at 4am and I need to get up in the actual morning so I will be back later to report. In the mean time, I hope you can find a solution, if not, like I mentioned, I will connect the DK tomorrow.

Thank you.

Brian.

[Jared]

Hi Brian,

I double checked with our developers and nRF Connect Programmer app does not support Windows 8.1.

I'm sorry,

regards

Jared 

[Nothoro]

Its ok, I still have a couple of avenue's. I can continue to run Win10 inside 8.1 on a VM to do this, also looking into CircuitPython as an option. Thank for your time.