Bricked Reuleaux

[FredL]

I bricked my Reuleaux during a firmware update. So i tried to do a manual update but escribe is not detecting my device.
I am using Windows XP on VirtualBox. Seems like virtualbox is also not detecting the dna200 attached.
How do i get this fixed?

[lexalove]

Excluding a damaged board I think it's almost impossible to "brick" a DNA 200D.... Many have purposely tried and failed to do it.

I would suggest installing eScribe on a native Windows computer and see if it will actually detect that you've connected a USB device. From there you should be able to flash the new firmware.

[digatel]

FredL said:

I bricked my Reuleaux during a firmware update. So i tried to do a manual update but escribe is not detecting my device.
I am using Windows XP on VirtualBox. Seems like virtualbox is also not detecting the dna200 attached.
How do i get this fixed?

I did the exact same thing-I was running VB on my iMac. I tried everything, but nothing worked, until I plugged it into a Windows tablet I purchased solely for the DNA 200-as soon as I plugged it in, my device lit up and is working fine ever since.

[jbchow]

Take a look at this. You have to port the usb device from the host machine to the virtual machine.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-usb.html

Note there are two devices both need to be ported.

A usb Input device mine is called Evolv DNA 200 once windows installed the drivers from windows update it changed to USB Input Device and a usb to serial port mine is called Evolv DNA 200 Serial Port

[dritzps]

FredL said:

I bricked my Reuleaux during a firmware update. So i tried to do a manual update but escribe is not detecting my device.
I am using Windows XP on VirtualBox. Seems like virtualbox is also not detecting the dna200 attached.
How do i get this fixed?

Have you tried to hook it up to escribe and reset to factory settings?  Doing this fixed mine.

[bmclaurin]

For those of you having trouble using eScribe on a Mac VM, can you not just create a bootable Windows partition with Bootcamp and then use eScribe in a native Windows environment?

[iCGM]

I had numerous issues using Virtualbox.  Was not able to connect... then it worked, but wasn't able to run the analysers.  So I created a Bootcamp partition running Windows 10. And no more issues. Should've just done that to start.

[bdaines]

So this may not really fit in this topic super well, but virtualbox seems to be being discussed a bit....

I was having lots of problem running escribe in VB (linux host OS, with windows 7 guest), lots of time outs loading / downloading settings.  I changed my settings to make the virtual machine a dual core system and now it runs at native speeds. 

escribe really shouldn't require dual core hardware.... but hey, it works now.

[Yotrek]

Have you check if the fuse not blown?