Windows sometimes misidentifies serial ports, including the AXE027, as a mouse or pointing device. This is most likely to happen if the cable is connected, the PICAXE board is powered on, is sending SERTXD or DEBUG information.My AXE027 cable shows up with a mouse icon in the control panel. I can no longer communicate with a picaxe chip.
It may be that you need to manually install the AXE027 drivers again. It is not entirely clear what may have happened seeing as it was working last week but it seems Windows may have become somewhat confused.Windows now shows cable as USB device on com 4.
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Which PICAXE type are you trying to program ?Tried holding reset button until after starting check for device connected.
Okay; thanks for letting us know.Sorry now working. Chip was plugged in upside down, now fried.