TI Launchpad "Bricked"?

[taichichuan]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

And you tried the recovery method in post #2?

Yes, we did with the result I listed earlier. I'm going to see if Energia can reprogram the firmware to at least get something going.

Update: Energia could update the firmware to get something on the board again. Now, I can detect it in the Gamepad Tool.

However, when I try to program via the GT, we get:

The program encountered an error: Error 5000
Gamepad Tool.vi<ERR>
Programmer did not succeed. Check the log for details.

Looking at the log I see:

tilib: MSP430_Initialize: Interface Communication error (error = 35)
tilib: device initialization failed
MSPDebug version 0.20 - debugging tool for MSP430 MCUs
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Daniel Beer <dlbeer@gmail.com>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

MSP430_Initialize: COM8

If I try the technique listed in post #7, I get:

C:\Users\mike>"C:\Program Files (x86)\FRC Gamepad Tool\Tools\mspdebug\mspdebug.exe" --allow-fw-update tilib "prog ../../Firmware/MSP430-GamePad-Option1.hex"
MSPDebug version 0.20 - debugging tool for MSP430 MCUs
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Daniel Beer <dlbeer@gmail.com>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

MSP430_GetNumberOfUsbIfs
MSP430_GetNameOfUsbIf
Found FET: COM8
MSP430_Initialize: COM8
tilib: MSP430_Initialize: Interface Communication error (error = 35)
tilib: device initialization failed

Still no joy. My other two work fine. But, this is the one from the KOP.

TIA.

Mike