STLink driver not working for Windows 8 (64 bit)

[iduffy]

Posted on June 28, 2013 at 14:41

I'm not having any luck getting Windows 8 to load the ST Link driver correctly. Other people have posted similar problems but have reported that setting Windows 8 to disable Driver Signature Enforcement fixes their problems. This hasn't worked for me.

I'm using the ST-Link part of an STM32F4 discovery board to program my own STM32F4 based board. It's worked for me for over a year using Windows 7 on my previous laptop which died last week. I'm rebuilding my development environment on a new Windows 8 laptop (Dell Inspiron 15z) and getting the driver to work is frustrating me.

I'm installing st-link_v2_usbdriver downloaded from http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/tools/PF258167

As an aside, my target board uses USB as a VCP and I've installed the USB VCP driver ok.

Does being 64-bit make any difference?

I've been into the registry and found the entry for the ST-Link in the enum\USB section. This is what it looks like .. it might mean something to somebody.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\VID_0483&PID_3748]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\VID_0483&PID_3748\5&2842f95&0&2]

''DeviceDesc''=''STM32 STLink''

''LocationInformation''=''Port_&sharp0002.Hub_&sharp0003''

''Capabilities''=dword:00000004

''ContainerID''=''{27e98665-dfdd-11e2-be75-6817291a1417}''

''HardwareID''=hex(7):55,00,53,00,42,00,5c,00,56,00,49,00,44,00,5f,00,30,00,34,\

  00,38,00,33,00,26,00,50,00,49,00,44,00,5f,00,33,00,37,00,34,00,38,00,26,00,\

  52,00,45,00,56,00,5f,00,30,00,31,00,30,00,30,00,00,00,55,00,53,00,42,00,5c,\

  00,56,00,49,00,44,00,5f,00,30,00,34,00,38,00,33,00,26,00,50,00,49,00,44,00,\

  5f,00,33,00,37,00,34,00,38,00,00,00,00,00

''CompatibleIDs''=hex(7):55,00,53,00,42,00,5c,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,\

  5f,00,46,00,46,00,26,00,53,00,75,00,62,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,5f,\

  00,46,00,46,00,26,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,74,00,5f,00,46,00,46,00,00,00,55,00,\

  53,00,42,00,5c,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,5f,00,46,00,46,00,26,00,53,\

  00,75,00,62,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,5f,00,46,00,46,00,00,00,55,00,\

  53,00,42,00,5c,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,5f,00,46,00,46,00,00,00,00,\

  00

''ConfigFlags''=dword:00000040

#stm32driver-usb #stlink-driver-not-working

[noman992003]

Posted on February 13, 2014 at 06:09

Hi All,

I have exactly the same problem as Shan with installing STM32 USBdriver in PC running window8.1(64). Please let me know how you solved it.

The problem

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I'm also using Windows 8, 64 bit laptop.  When I searched for driver update online in the device manager, it shows that: ''

Windows found driver software for your device (STMicroelectronics STLink dongle) but encountered an error while attempting to install it.''

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Regards

Noman

[nmkhanh1990]

Posted on December 15, 2015 at 11:50

I've downloaded a driver from st.com, hope useful:

http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/tools/PF260219#

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on December 15, 2015 at 19:04

Well the thread does date from 2013, and has been dormant for a year or so. So I'm assuming it's only coming up in Google/Bing searches, and has been addressed by the passage of time, and newer driver packages. Was timely then, old news now.

I really wish ST had a way to lock threads, or put them in hibernation/stasis.