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Maintenance
USB Drivers
Installing a USB FTDI Driver
The USB driver may require updating or re-installing when the Bolide Crawler device is not recognized
by your operating system. The following section provides step-by-step instructions of the installation
procedure on a Windows operating system.
1.
Download the driver file and extract it to your hard drive, somewhere you can find it.
2.
You first need to uninstall the incorrect drivers on your computer. In Windows, go to
Control
Panel
then to
Device Manager
.
3.
Select
Ports (COM & LPT)
to expand the port list.
4.
Select the USB Serial Port associated with the Bolide Crawler device.
5.
Right click on the selection and select
Uninstall
from the pop-up window.
6.
A confirmation window appears, check the
Delete the driver software for this device
option
and click
OK
to complete the uninstallation process.
7.
From the Device Manager window, click
Universal Serial Bus Controllers
to expand the list.
8.
You will need to uninstall the existing USB Serial Converter. To do this, scroll down the list and
select USB Serial Converter and right click to open a pop-up menu.
9.
From the menu selections, click
Uninstall
.
10.
If the Bolide Crawler device is connected to your computer through the USB cable at this time,
disconnect the USB cable.
11.
Turn on the Bolide Crawler if it isn’t powered on already. Then re-connect the USB cable from the
Bolide Crawler to a USB port on your system.
The operating system detects the new USB connection. In the Device Manager, a new Flagged
item appears under Other Devices.
12.
Right click on the detected device and right-click on it to open up the Properties menu.
13.
From the menu, select
Update Driver Software
.
14.
An Update Driver Software window displays. Click
Browse
to navigate to the previously saved
driver files on your computer.
15.
Select the file and tick the
Include subfolders
option, then click
Next
to continue.
16.
Click
Close
to finish this step.
The USB Serial Converter drivers are now installed. Next you will need to install the Port driver.
17.
In the Other Devices list item, the selection is now changed to USB Serial Port. Select this item
and right-click to open up the Properties window.
18.
Select
Update Driver Software
.
19.
The Update Driver Software window displays. Click
Browse
to select the driver file, located in the
same location as the previous file.
20.
Select the file and tick the
Include subfolders
option, then click
Next
to continue.
21.
Click
Close
to complete the Port driver installation.
Both drivers are now installed. The Bolide Crawler is available for selection through the COM port by
both the Adruino software and the XYZrobot Editor.
