Start with hydra, firmware update issue

Hello all,
I’ve just received my hydra and follow instructions https://www.ghielectronics.com/support/netmf
I use W7 SP1 (on a quiet old Dell, rather designed for XP)
I’ve installed WS 2012 Express
Install NETMF SDK 4.3
MS .NET gadgeteer Core
NEMTF and Gadgeteer PAckage 2014 R5
and then follow instructions for beginners…:
https://www.ghielectronics.com/downloads/Gadgeteer/NET_Gadgeteer_for_beginners.pdf

But my Hello world didn’t work ! I don’t remember the exact message… about deployment.
I must say i’ve tested the programm before any check with FEZ config.

NETMF and Gadgeteer Troubleshooting help me, but I didn’t succeed (Many links in forum don’t exist anymore…)

I can see FEZ Hydra on Windows device managment.
Fez config doesn’t detect hydra, pinging fails.

I’ve tried to update loader using hydra tool in SDK4.3. After many tests and forum reading, the “best” result is when i first test loader after restarting the PC, and use USB port number 1.
In this config, I’ got one time the message announcing the end (‘hitting a key to continue’…), but after that, pinging still fails.
But since a few tests, the loader doesn’t stop (15 minutes !), the log file contains :

-I- Waiting …
-I- TCL platform : Windows NT
-I- SAM-BA CDC 2.10 on : windows
-I- Retrieved arguments from command line :
-I- argv 0 : com1
-I- argv 1 : at91sam9rl64-ek
-I- argv 2 : Loader.tcl
-I- Connection : com1 (target(comType) = 3)
-I- Board : at91sam9rl64-ek
-I- Traces Level : 4
-I- target(handle) : file226ea18

No change in FEZ config : Failure : Device is not connected or no responding.

On deployment tool, pinging on USB fails too.

I did’t try to change the cable between hydra mainboard and USB Client DP.
Checking this… in the document for beginners, I haven’t got the same USBclientSP.
Power led of hydra is red.

Where am I wrong ?

Thanks

Hi arnaud.audrezet and welcome to the forum.

The troubleshooting page is probably the best starting point for you. https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/165/netmf-and-gadgeteer-troubleshooting

In the case of Hydra, you must follow the “Loader update” section in https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/39/fez-hydra-developers-guide to update the loader, and then apply the firmware update it is most important to apply the loader and firmware that came with your SDK.

Can you let us know what device manager showed before you ran the SAM-BA update ? If you are correctly in loader mode, you will see a new COM port that appears (possibly listed as “GPS Camera Detect”). The best way to see what is going on is have Device Manager open, with the COM and LPT port section visible, before you attempt to connect the Hydra. Then, plug the device in - if it gets into loader mode correctly the GPS Camera Detect item will show up after the device rescan happens. If you are using the “grounding pin” method, ie you don’t have a loader button, you might need to try many times to go into loader mode - my personal approach is to ground the pin, hit and release reset, and then check the COM port came up.

Hi,
full success !
I did’nt read properly the loader. Now it’s good, after pin 8 operation…
I’ve notice a small trap :
com port appears with number 3 on my PC. At my first “new test”, I enter “1”, like USB port…

My hello world works, thank a lot.

Arnaud.