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No longer able to upload to circuit playground Classic

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I have been using my Circuit Playground Classic for a few weeks now with no problems. Recently I was doing some testing connecting it to a DotStar LED strip and power supply and ever since then I have been unable to upload any code to it. When I connect it to my MacBook via the USB cable, the green light comes on, and I have "Adafruit Circuit Playground" selected under Board and Port. When I try to upload any code (even something as simple as Hello_Blink), I get these errors:

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Found programmer: Id = "��"; type = �
Software Version = .; Hardware Version = �.
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported. Maybe it isn't
a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

I tried double-pressing the Reset button and the red light flashes for about 10 seconds, but still the same results. I also tried rebooting my Mac. Then I tried installing the Arduino IDE on a Windows 7 PC and after installing the drivers, selecting the appropriate Board and Port, when I try to Upload, I get the error: "An error occurred while uploading the sketch".

Is it possible that I fried my Circuit Playground somehow?

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Re: No longer able to upload to circuit playground Classic

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Does the Circuit Playground's red LED pulse when you click the reset button?

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Re: No longer able to upload to circuit playground Classic

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Yes, the red light pulses for about 8 seconds when I double-press the reset button.

I enabled "verbose output" and this is the last part of the error:

Uflash:w:/var/folders/hj/fd323tq1755bvd8k4ly8824m0000gn/T/arduino_build_403602/Hello_Blink.ino.hex:i

avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Jan 17 2017 at 12:01:35
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "/Users/matthewshell/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avrdude/6.3.0-arduino9/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/Users/matthewshell/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/cu.usbmodemFA131
Using Programmer : avr109
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
AVR Part : ATmega32U4
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PA0
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :

Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : butterfly
Description : Atmel AppNote AVR109 Boot Loader

Connecting to programmer: .avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Found programmer: Id = ""; type = (
Software Version = .�; Hardware Version = .
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported. Maybe it isn't
a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: leave prog mode
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: exit bootloader

avrdude done. Thank you.

the selected serial port
does not exist or your board is not connected


Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Matt

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Re: No longer able to upload to circuit playground Classic

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The pulsing LED means the bootloader is running.

As a sanity check, verify your USB cable by using it to connect some other, known-working device to the computer. There's a plague of charge-only cables out there with USB connectors at both ends but no wires for the data signals. We see people get caught by them every day, and it's become normal for people to say they had to try three or four cables before finding one that worked.

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