NodeMCU not detected by computer

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Dragos Spiridon picture Dragos Spiridon · Mar 24, 2017 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I have bought today a NodeMCU v2 (I think). I am a simple 17 year-old high-schooler who wants to learn some things; I don't know a whole lot...

I connected my NodeMCU to my laptop with a microUSB to USB cable, the same one that I use to transfer photos from my phone to my laptop. The laptop simply does not show me the NodeMCU while connected (I am running Windows 8 for reference). It makes the little sound when I plug it in (also a small blue light flashes once) or out and the Wi-Fi AI-THINKER_2CD750 appears in the Wi-Fi tab.

It doesn't try to install the drivers or anything, nothing happens. I tried to install the drivers myself from the github page, that did not work either, it says that they are preinstalled. Please help my poor soul.

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Naman Gupta picture Naman Gupta · Jun 1, 2018

It happened to me too. For me The board was bad. After replacing with new one it was working with same drivers

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