Our team recently acquired a new V5 brain, however, when we plugged it into my computer for some reason it would not show up. We never got the little pop-up saying that the “V5 brain has been connected” in VCS and it doesn’t show up in the devices and printers menu We have tried rebooting and resetting the computer to before it was plugged in, but to no avail.
When we tried it on our coach’s computer, it worked perfectly and it downloaded fine. The only difference is that the other computer is a new Windows 10 computer, while mine is an older Windows 7 system.
One theory we have is that for some reason the device driver didn’t download onto my computer for some reason, since when we first plugged the brain, instead of saying “Device driver successfully installed” it said “Error when installing device driver”.
Does anyone know what this problem is, or how to fix it? Or maybe find a brain drive that I could manually install?
OK, I’m in the C>Program Files (x86)>VEX Robotics>Drivers2>v5 Drivers folder. All I can find are some “Security catalog” files and “Setup information” files, along with 3 folders with other LIB files and application extensions that I can’t run. There’s one “Setup information” file that says “usb_vex_v5_brain_serial” that I tried opening, but it just opened as text. Do you know how to run the file?
We are having a similar problem, we tried another computer, we turned the brain and controller off then back on, we restarted the program, everything. Other of our teams are stumped why it isn’t working. Help?
My computer will only ever recognize the brain to be a “usb composite device”. I think that I have installed all the drivers I need to and don’t know what to do next. The brain does not appear in any coding studio.
I too am having issue with the brain talking to the computer. I installed the driver as indicated in post #4. Started the program up, and no option to download.
its been a while since anybody posted to this thread, however i had the same problem recently, and once i fixed it using the solution about it still didnt work. What i did to fix it, was to go to the devices menu in windows, right click the “USB Composite Device” and click troubleshoot. Hope this helps!
Suffering the same issue across multiple computers. Have tried the above and as of yet we can’t connect with the next V5 software.
Does VEX have a solution? Are others still having an issue connecting?