So it seems like some :spark: owners want to go slightly advanced but instructions for installing the DFU-driver is a little vague. How to put your core in DFU-mode Press on BOTH buttons Release only the Reset button Release the Mode button once the core start blinking yellow This will be the df…

@OrangeOctober , seems like everything installed correctly but Spark-cli didn’t seem to like it :stuck_out_tongue: Can you try this just to be sure: dfu-util -a 0 -s 0x08005000:leave -D firmware.bin I have a feeling that DFU-util is not in the PATH for your command prompt so when Spark-cli called …

Hi There; I’ve just installed Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64 bits on my laptop, really a fresh install today, just installed Office 2013 then gone trough Windows Update, that’s all. Then plugged my core with no effect and not seen in device manager. I put the core in smart config and same thing, not se…

Answering to myself, problem solved, I’ve got a wrong USB cable, so make sense, with original Spark USB cable, everything is working file,

For some reason, on windows 10, even when not requiring signed drivers, the spark_core.inf driver was totally not working (exclamation point). So, I found this thread and followed it and it worked.

@kennethlimcp . The cores we have been using got into a continuously-blinking-green mode. This tutorial has been immensely useful in getting the cores back to working mode. My suggestion is to make this part of the standard documentation or FAQ so that it serves as a quick reference for anyone who …

@kennethlimcp Hi, I’m quite new to the community and have been trying to fix issues with the core for about 3 days now (it happens to be much harder than it seems!). I’ve gotten to dfu-util and have downloaded the file you’ve given, but I don’t know what I need to put into the path. I’ve put “C:\Pro…

It’s not that hard. :wink: You will need to extract the dfu-util.exe to use it :wink:

Hi, for some reason I still can’t get it to work. I’ve extracted the file and copied the path to that where “dfu-util.exe” is, yet the computer still does not recognize the command. Here is my path: C:\Users\Andrew\Downloads\dfu-util-0.8-binaries.tar.xz\dfu-util-0.8-binaries.tar\dfu-util-0.8-binarie…

@Werdna , I suggest you move the win32-mingw32 directory to the root of the drive and use that path instead.

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