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Anybody came up with a solution with the driver for Chronos ez430 failing to install?

Lampros Panagis
Prodigy 40 points


I got my ez430-Chronos yesterday, and I was going to play with it. Following the instructions, I ran Chronos-Setup I downloaded from here: http://www.ti.com/lit/zip/slac341, on my Win32 XP-SP3 PC, then inserted the RF access point in an USB port.  The LED flashd once, tunred off and my system asked for the dirver and after several attempts, it failed to find a suitable driver. I repeated the procedure on my Win32 7-SP1 PC with the exact same results. I took my Windows 2000-SR4 PC out of the mothballs and tried there too. Same results... On all three the RF device is correctly identifed and the driver installation starts and even if I manually point to the driver (usb_cdc_driver_cc1111.inf) the installation tells me that it found no suitable driver...

Right now I'm stuck with a cumbersome watch I don't need (sorry TI, I have a watch...) and there is nothing I can do to test it, or use it...

I went through the forum looking for an answer and found no definitive solution to this problem. Last discussion was from 2010! I expected TI would have come up with a solution after 2 years but nothing. It just brings back memories from the early days of PnP where driver installation was a plug-n-pray procedure...

Any idea what's going on and how to fix it?  

Thanks!

  • 0
    Prodigy 40 points

    OK, this is ridiculous! Since I posted this, no one from TI bothered to answer, I asked for information on how to return my ez430 for a refund but haven't heard from them about that either (just that they received my complaint).

    It is obvious they have no idea how to resolve the problem, there is no support for this product yet they still happily sell it and that they don't want it back despite it's obvious problems...

    There it goes; years of RESPECT for TI and it's products and support, down the drain... What a shame...