I ran into the same problem on a the same IAR version running on Vista.  It
turned out to be pretty simple.  The USB dongle - when plugged in creates a
vertual COM port (COM17: in my case).  Another program (Palm HotSynch) was
opening that port every time I rebooted - thinking it was a bluetooth
virtual COM port.  Once I corrected the other progra, all was well.

To help, after plugging in the USB device, open the project options in IAR
and look in the "FET Debugger" settings under "Debugger".  The Connection
field should say "Texas Instruments USB-IF". To the right of that is a
Field that says "Automatic".  Click on the "..." button to the right, and
it should list a COM port as well as "Automatic".  In my case with the USB
device plugged in,  It showed "COM17 (Aready in use)" - that's how I new
that something else hijacked it.  If it doesn't list a virtual com port,
you may have a driver issue.

Cheers,
Steve


>Hello:
>
>We have two MSP430 development setups using:
>
>- the IAR Kickstart 3.42 for TI MSP430
>- the USB Debugging Interface MSP-FET430UIF
>- the target: MSP430F1612
>
>One of them works fine, we're able to compile and debug.
>
>One the other, we can compile but we can't debug/execute. We're getting 
>these messages:
>
>Failed to initialize device
>Failed to load debugee
>
>What could it be?
>
>Permissions in installing the IAR Kickstart? Are they critical?
>
>Has any of you seen similar stuff?
>
>Thanks.
>Marius Hancu
>

On Apr 20, 6:33 pm, Marius.Ha...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 29, 6:05 pm, "PeterJ" <pjenni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having the same failure to start problem.
>
> We were able to solve the problem only after the FET devices were sent
> to TI in Texas and reprogrammed.
>
> I strongly suggest contacting them.
>
> It seems that there are many generations of devices out there. In our
> case, we bought it recently, but it was still dated 2004.
>
> Marius Hancu

No nothing like that. Its a pure and simple Driver conflict and a very
common one for the TI USB device. Uninstall some other virtual serial
or USB drivers and look for driver conflict. It will be resolved

On Mar 29, 6:05 pm, "PeterJ" <pjenni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having the same failure to start problem.

We were able to solve the problem only after the FET devices were sent
to TI in Texas and reprogrammed.

I strongly suggest contacting them.

It seems that there are many generations of devices out there. In our
case, we bought it recently, but it was still dated 2004.

Marius Hancu

>I am having the same failure to start problem.
>
>The devices worked fine last summer on this computer but now Windows
>reports "Cannot start this hardware" Code 10 and I get the yellow
>exclamation mark by the driver.

Thanks to those that offered suggestions.

The problem turned out to be a conflict with another driver that had been
installed months ago and wasn't being used any more, but it prevented the
TI driver from functioning apparently.

In my case it was the N8VB vCOM Virtual Serial Ports
Driver, which makes sense once the problem has been resolved. It never
bothered other serial devices, but I guess XP doesn't like 2 multiport
drivers at the same time. Disabled the N8VB driver and XP's wizard popped
up to re-install the MSP-430UIF that was failing to start.

Anyway, for those who google here in the future, don't give up hope. Look
for the driver conflicts, try the older and newer versions, and eventually
it will work on XP and W2K.

Peter

In article <30YOh.1656$H_5.23@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>, Joerg 
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes
>Gunther Mannigel wrote:
>
>> Marius.Hancu@gmail.com schrieb:
>>
>>> On Mar 14, 11:46 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@removethispacbell.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> However, with the 3.42 version, we had the "Failed to load debugee"
>>>>> errors described in the above, i.e. couldn't really debug.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fixed after sending all our FETs (both USB and LPT) to TI support for
>>   LPT? How do they program a 'HC244?
>>
>
>In America that's done with a Smith&Wesson :-)

Apparently a British owned company...

It is fascinating to see who actually owns what. Often you find a 
company that is part of the history and heritage is owned by some one 
foreign.  It is the same in the UK .   The Business world is global with 
little soul.

The Ironic thing about Smith and Wesson being owned by a British company 
is of course that it is illegal to own any of their products in the UK 
:-(


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Joerg wrote:
> Clifford Heath wrote:
>> CBFalconer wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, in Usenet, there is no real need to hide from spammers,
>>> since the reply-to field is not normally easily accessible to them
>>> without the complete article, yet it makes email replies trivial.
>>
>> That would be true, if spammers didn't talk NNTP as well as us.
> 
> They don't even have to. Most of the technical newsgroups are copied
> into all kinds of web based forums, usually multiple times.
> 
> Chuck: Open your own post and then click on View -> Message Source, in
> Mozilla. That's what a spambot reads. I just did and that's where I saw
> that you are using Mozilla :-)
> 
> The reply-to pops up right at the top so the spambot doesn't even have
> to crawl the message. They can stop after the 5th line.

However, they don't, as evidenced by my relative freedom from
spammers.  Of course there has to means to access it, otherwise the
mailers couldn't.

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Gunther Mannigel wrote:

> Marius.Hancu@gmail.com schrieb:
> 
>> On Mar 14, 11:46 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@removethispacbell.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> However, with the 3.42 version, we had the "Failed to load debugee"
>>>> errors described in the above, i.e. couldn't really debug.
>>
>>
>> Fixed after sending all our FETs (both USB and LPT) to TI support for
> 
> 
> LPT? How do they program a 'HC244?
> 

In America that's done with a Smith&Wesson :-)

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PeterJ wrote:
> 
> I am having the same failure to start problem.
> 
> The devices worked fine last summer on this computer but now Windows
> reports "Cannot start this hardware" Code 10 and I get the yellow
> exclamation mark by the driver.
> 
> Windows XP is up-to-date with all the downloaded "fixes".
> 
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers.
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire IAR package (from
> the CD as before).
> 
> It is frustrating that it all worked a few months ago.
> 
> No joy.
> 
> .. BUT ...
> 
> I installed the whole thing (from the CD) on a W2K machine here and it
> works fine. So there isn't a problem with the FETs.
> 
> I didn't know until I read this thread that it wouldn't work with W2K
> machines. Ironic that I have it working on W2K, but not on XP.
> 
> So any more suggestions on fixing the XP problem. I have removed all other
> USB devices (other than internal ones) and it doesn't help.
> 
> I even uninstalled and re-installed the USB hub controller drivers as that
> was suggested in an XP support group for hard drives that suffer the
> "cannot start" symptom.

Very simple.  Remove XP.  Install Linux.

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PeterJ wrote:

> I am having the same failure to start problem.
> 
> The devices worked fine last summer on this computer but now Windows
> reports "Cannot start this hardware" Code 10 and I get the yellow
> exclamation mark by the driver.
> 
> Windows XP is up-to-date with all the downloaded "fixes".
> 
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers.
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire IAR package (from
> the CD as before).
> 
> It is frustrating that it all worked a few months ago.
> 
> No joy.
> 
> .. BUT ...
> 
> I installed the whole thing (from the CD) on a W2K machine here and it
> works fine. So there isn't a problem with the FETs.
> 
> I didn't know until I read this thread that it wouldn't work with W2K
> machines. Ironic that I have it working on W2K, but not on XP.
> 
> So any more suggestions on fixing the XP problem. I have removed all other
> USB devices (other than internal ones) and it doesn't help.
> 
> I even uninstalled and re-installed the USB hub controller drivers as that
> was suggested in an XP support group for hard drives that suffer the
> "cannot start" symptom.
> 

Look around on your CD. It's been too long ago but AFAIR there were two 
releases on there and only the older one worked on the XP machine in the 
lab.

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Chris Hills wrote:

> In article <T5EJh.4724$JZ3.444@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>, Joerg 
> <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes
> 
>> Hello Mats,
>>
>> By the way I find it is great that an engineer from a manufacturer 
>> participates in a newsgroup like this. Way to go!
> 
> 
> Far more do than you realise.  There are AFAIK people from most of the 
> major semis and tools companies on here.   Most use non-company email 
> addresses for all the usual reasons..
> 

I just wish their feedback to the bosses would materialize a bit better. 
For example, when National botched their web site there were tons of 
complaints on s.e.d. From some real high-rollers that are responsible 
for a lot of semiconductor purchases. Did they fix it? Nope :-(

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