{"id":374,"date":"2013-05-31T20:16:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/?p=374"},"modified":"2013-05-31T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:24:49","slug":"avr-dragon-problem-stopped-working-not-recognised-by-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/avr-dragon-problem-stopped-working-not-recognised-by-usb\/","title":{"rendered":"AVR Dragon Problem: stopped working, not recognised by USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230; so my Dragon just stopped working. Plug it in, the status LED just flashes amber and Windows (XP) does not detect it. Re-install the drivers &#8211; no, that isn&#8217;t it. (BTW, the instructions in the helpfile that comes with Atmel Studio 6 are wrong). Try another PC or using a motherboard USB socket rather than the hub &#8211; no, wrong again. Try a different USB cable &#8211; nope.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, it seems is to use a USB hub but to do so with the hub&#8217;s separate power adapter. After that, I was able to dispense with the power adapter and the Dragon kept working, even after unplugging\/re-connecting.<\/p>\n<p>Wierd! There are a number of suggestions on the web that the Dragon draws a heavy current on startup,\u00a0 so I guess it got into &#8220;a bit of a state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230; so my Dragon just stopped working. Plug it in, the status LED just flashes amber and Windows (XP) does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avr","category-mcu","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}