Does the FRDM-KL25Z board not work with Windows 8 and CodeWarrior?

[mikeconover]

We just got an order from our customer for 5,000 units and we are planning on using the KL25 processor in our design. I just bought 12 FRDM-KL25Z boards to start testing with. I have now just wasted a week just trying to run simple code to blink an LED. The problem is when I go to run the code in Code Warrior it doesn't detect the device.

I assume this is some sort of OpenSDA problem. I have read through all the posts on this forum and I am not able to get anything to work in order to connect to one of these boards. I tried the steps below(from BlackNight) on all 12 boards and still can't connect to these boards in Code Warrior. :smileysad:

- power board with reset button pressed

- green LED blinks

- copy BOOTUPDATEAPP_Pemicro_v111.SDA to the board

- unpower the board, power the board again (wait a few seconds) (IMPORTANT: this step easily gets missed!)

- unpower the board

- power the board again with RESET pressed

- copy the MSD-DEBUG-FRDM-KL25Z_Pemicro_v114.SDA to the board

- wait a few seconds

- power the board normally

All our machines at work run windows 8 and my computer at home runs Windows 8.

Has anyone been able to run code on a FRDM-KL25Z board in CodeWarrior?

Thanks for the help,

Mike

[BlackNight]

Hi Mike,

You cannot do the update with a Windows 8 machine, as the bootloader does not work with Windows 8. You need a different machine (say Windows 7 or Vista), see FRDM Board Bootloader fails with Windows 8.1 Preview | MCU on Eclipse.

Erich

[mikeconover]

Thanks for the replies. :smileyhappy:

I guess I will go buy Windows 7 to get these boards up and running.

-Mike

[mjbcswitzerland]

Hi

Configure "Do not allow locations on removable drives to be added to libraries"  as discussed here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-hardware/how-do-i-prevent-system-volume-...

and you should be able to do updates from Windows 8.1.

Regards

Mark

- Windows 8.1 writes system volume information files to a fresh disk and confuses the loader in the process, but it can be simply disabled.

[Edrianocarlos]

Ok.

I had this problem before.

maybe you have an old FRDM and you have to update opensda firmware.

Download the updated firmware from PE micro website. and make the update. in my casa  i had to use a pc with other OS to do the update.

after update you should be able to work with windows 8 without problems.

[mikeconover]

All my work computers have Windows 8 and my home computer has Windows 8. :smileysad: Booo. So, the only way to work with these boards is to have Windows 7 or Windows XP? Seems pointless to go buy a $100 operating system in order to work with these boards. 

I just bought these boards. They are the black colored boards, not the white prototype boards that I have seen in other people's posts.

[Edrianocarlos]

In my case.

I installed an Windows xp in a virtualbox. on the same computer. just to upgrade the bootloader.

It was the best way for me.

[BlackNight]

Yes, you need a Windows 7 or XP machine to make that upgrade. The white boards are pre-production boards (and have even an older firmware on it. The white boards are not recommended anyway, and they are not available any more.

[mikeconover]

The openSDA firmware version is 1.09 on my boards. I tried updating the firmware and followed the steps on people's posts in order to do this and everything I have tried, it still says the firmware version is 1.09.