Tuesday, December 3, 2013

How to get the BeagleBone Black Drivers to work on Windows 8 computer

To install the drivers, the windows 8 computer needs to be restarted in the mode where it allows you to install unsigned drivers.

Here's a quick step-by-step guide:

1. Press win+c on the keyboard to bring up the charms side bar (or move mouse to right top corner of the screen)

2. Click the Settings button.

3. Click the Change PC Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.

4. On screen that shows up, select the General option from the sidebar then scroll down the page that appears.

5. Click the Restart now button under the Advanced startup section.

6. You will momentarily see the restarting screen, then it will switch to a blue screen titled "Choose an option"

7. Click the Troubleshoot button.

8. Click Advanced options.

9. Click Startup Settings

10. Click Restart

11. You should then see a Startup Settings screen after your computer reboots.

12. Press 7 or F7 on your keyboard to Disable driver signature enforcement

13. Now Windows 8 will continue starting up.

14. For Windows 8 64-bin: Log-in as normal, and then run BONE_D64.exe again (Click on Link to download)

15. For Windows 8 32-bin: Log-in as normal, and then run BONE_DRV.exe again (Click on Link to download)

16. Now you should see 4 warning dialogs about "unsigned driver installation", click OK for all of them.


Courtesy: elinux.org

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