Hello,
Today around 3~4 hours I have been trying to program my MSP-EXP430G2 launchpad using Energia. It looks like the FET in the board got bricked or something.
When I connect the board to my Windows 8.1x64 machine it gets enumerated as the 'MSP430 Application UART (COM5)' which is good. But then when I use Energia to download a simple 'Blinky' example to the board it fails.
It says,
tilib: MSP430_Initialize: Could not find MSP-FET430UIF on specified COM port (error = 57)
tilib: device initialization failed
Also the device becomes 'Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)' in the Device Manager. So it looks like the board tried to re-enumerate and failed to respond to USB Standard messages. I believe this is an issue in the FET which is populated in the board.
Is there any way to flash the FET in the MSP430 Launchpad? I tried 'LaunchPadFirmwareUpdater2.0.exe' to upgrade the firmware. But it is also not successful. It cannot detect the MSP430G2XXX device which is connected in the board. There also the device enumerates as an 'Unknown Device' too.
I have Googled this issue for last couple of hours and could not find a solution.
I think the FET firmware is messed up. So I'm trying to re-flash the MSP430F1612 to fix the issue. If anyone has tried this please let me know. If you have suggestions they are also welcome.
Cheers!!!