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Visitor II
April 11, 2018
Question

Greyed interface in ST-Link Utility

  • April 11, 2018
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Posted on April 11, 2018 at 17:05

Hello everyone, 

I am having issues with ST-Link utility. Whenever I first launch it, everything looks fine, but if I try to change something in the settings (such as 'connect under reset') and then I press OK, the settings are greyed and if I open them again it says : 'Old ST-Link Firmware/ST-Link is already used' while it's the most recent firmware (V2 J30 S7).

I don't really know what I can do right now ..

Thank you in advance !

#st-link-utility #st-link-v2-1 #stm32-f1
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    Graduate II
    April 11, 2018
    Posted on April 11, 2018 at 17:20

    Do you have it open in another instance of Keil, IAR, or ST-LINK Utilities?

    Is this a stand-alone ST-LINK?

    Is this with a custom board? How and what it wired up?

    B CAuthor
    Visitor II
    April 11, 2018
    Posted on April 11, 2018 at 17:25

    Clive One wrote:

    Do you have it open in another instance of Keil, IAR, or ST-LINK Utilities?

    What do you mean ? The only software open on my computer was ST-Link Utility

    Clive One wrote:

    Is this a stand-alone ST-LINK?

    It is the ST-Link V2 with an Olimex ARM-JTAG-20-10 adapter

    Clive One wrote:

    Is this with a custom board? How and what it wired up?

    It is an Olimex OlimexinoSTM32 : 

    https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/STM32/OLIMEXINO-STM32/

     

    it is wired to the ST-Link the right way by JTAG 5 pins.

    Graduate II
    April 11, 2018
    Posted on April 11, 2018 at 17:46

    Which version of Windows?

    What versions of ST-LINK Utilities have you tried?

    Any Upper/Lower Filters on the USB Stack? ie Daemon Tools, Intel performance driver, Dell Diagnostic Tools?

    AV Software?

    Problem observed on a single system? Port? Cable?

    Does it work on different make/model system?

    B CAuthor
    Visitor II
    April 13, 2018
    Posted on April 13, 2018 at 10:56

    I am adding a bit more details into my problem : 

    I was using an IDE (CooCox) to upload my code to my µC, hence I didn't need st-link utility beforehand, but due to some issue I can't upload anymore from the IDE. The main cause of my problem might be that I have re-assigned my JTAG GPIO pins (hence I cannot connect to my µC using my debugger anymore). Some way to fix it was apparently thanks to ST-Link Utility by connecting under reset or using my µC bootloader. But when I first tried it, I faced that greyed interface issue.

    I have already tried connecting the board while pressing the rst button but nothing changes ... I haven't made any tweaks to the board (beside adding the jumper for the 120 Ohm resistor for my CAN application).

    I have also tried while loading the bootloader (pressing the button 1 while turning on the board), but as I don't have any visual clue if it's in the bootloader or not, and as it is still not connecting through ST-Link Utility, I don't think it is working ...

    Graduate II
    April 16, 2018
    Posted on April 16, 2018 at 13:10

    Pull BOOT0 pin High

    B CAuthor
    Visitor II
    April 16, 2018
    Posted on April 16, 2018 at 14:01

    Yup, it's connected to the Button 1, so I've tried starting the board with the button 1 pressed (i.e BOOT0 high), but nothing changes ..

    Are the filters I linked to you on my last screenshot not causing any issue ?

    B CAuthor
    Visitor II
    April 16, 2018
    Posted on April 16, 2018 at 11:26

    Anyone else has some info ?