I don't succeed activating my DMD with my pin2dmd licence

[BeyondR]

I sure would appreciate some help activating my DMD.

 

I have Win10 Pro 64 bit OS installed on my PC.

Unfortunately I don't succeed in activating my DMD.

I have have the key and I have double checked the device number.

 

I don't have any file named pin2dmd.exe in my PC

In the STM32 ST-Link Utility directory I could only find three different exe files: 

ST-LINK_CLI.exe, STLinkUpgrade.exe and STM32 ST-LINK Utility.exe

I put the key-file alongside these exe-files, but no activation.

I could'n find the command: Device->Activate in the STM32 ST-Link Utility program. 

 

I'm stuck here, anybody have a solution?

[lucky1]

PIN2DMD.exe download location is here 

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/tools/Win64

or 32bit here

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/tools/Win32

 

[BeyondR]

4 hours ago, lucky1 said:

PIN2DMD.exe download location is here 

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/tools/Win64

or 32bit here

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/tools/Win32

 

Thank so much, that solved my problem!

[BeyondR]

I think I give up...

 

I have Win 10Pro

I prompted Device/Activate in the program Pin2dmd_v4_Win64

and received "Device activation failed !

 

[lucky1]

Bad or no USB connection. If you use a Nucleo make sure you use the correct USB port next to the Ethernet port

 

 

 

[BeyondR]

2 hours ago, lucky1 said:

Bad or no USB connection. If you use a Nucleo make sure you use the correct USB port next to the Ethernet port

 

 

 

I think I give up...

 

I have Win 10Pro

I prompted Device/Activate in the program Pin2dmd_v4_Win64

and received "Device activation failed !

 

[BeyondR]

Thank's for taking interest Newbie, one question: Should the PIN2DMD.exe program be placed in a special directory?

[lucky1]

1 hour ago, BeyondR said:

Thank's for taking interest Newbie, one question: Should the PIN2DMD.exe program be placed in a special directory?

No, if you receive device activation failed there is a problem with the USB connection. In the link I attached above a user reported that in

later Win10 installations you need to downgrade the USB driver using the zadig tool to make it work. The zadig tool can be found here

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/usb_driver . Don´t you have a micro SD card you can copy your key file to, to activate the

pin2dmd ? 

[BeyondR]

...or the file have a special name or could I leave it as it is?

[outhere]

This is the drive i use

[BeyondR]

Success! Thank you guys for all your help, when I was about to give up 

 

I had no card reader on my DMD. 

I had the USB-cable in the wrong USB-port so thank you for correcting that, Newbie.

I didn't know where to find Pin2dmd.exe and so the hyperlinks really pushed me in the right direction!

Thank you outhere for sharing a picture, that really helped!

 

Have a good day you all, I know I will!

Pinball Lunatic