Smartieparts drivers

[Rad]

Hi friends.

A friend of mine needs er9x in his old turnigy m64 radio, and I am having trouble to flash it. I have a basic 9x programmer that I used several times in the past, but this time I cannot make it work.

I thought of a computer drivers problem, but I connected my 9xtreme and my 9xr Pro and both work flawlessly, so I wonder if it might be a smartieparts driver issue.

I checked the website but it no longer exists. Do you know where can I download the drivers? Thanks!

[MikeB]

The smartieparts programmer is just a USBASP programmer, so you just need to do a search for "USBASP drivers".

The 9Xtreme and the 9XR-PRO both use erskyTx (not er9x) and use built in drivers.

Mike

[Rad]

Oh yes, I forgot to say I am using Eepe.

The error I am getting is: avrdude.exe: error: could not find USB device "USBasp" with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc

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AVRDUDE done - exit code 1
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I installed the USBASP drivers with zadig 2.9 but still not working... Hummm...

EDIT: The turnigy radio has pads compatible with the programmer.

[Rad]

Oh man, problem solved. With Zadig I swapped the drivers to Lilusb win32 and it worked.

Thanks again for your time.

[MikeB]

I've dug out a USBASP!
When I plug this in to my PC (Windows 10), I get the tones indicating a USB device is connected, do you get this?
Looking in "Devices and Printers" I see a device "USBasp", do you see this?
Right clicking on this and selecting "Properties" I go to the "Hardware tab and select "Properties", a new window pops up.
In this window I select the "Driver" tab and see:
Driver Provider libusb-win32
Driver Date 02/08/2012
Driver Version 1.2.6.0

Do you see this driver?

Too slow, I see you have installed this driver!

Mike

[Rad]

Yeah, for some reason I had newer drivers. The device was recognized but it did not work until I installed the Lilusb. One problem less.

The only thing is I had an issue after flashing: I was removing the right screw from the programer when I sliped the screwdiver and removed the component C5 from the smartieparts board.

That thing was too tiny to be found. Do know know what is the name of it, so I can order a packet of 400 on aliexpress for only solderig one? Lol

[MikeB]

I've never had a SP board so can't help directly.
Is it an original SP board, with the backlight driver, or the later, small board?

Mike

[Rad]

I've never had a SP board so can't help directly.
Is it an original SP board, with the backlight driver, or the later, small board?

Mike

Is the the original basic SP programmer, that tiny black one without backlight.