Well, for the longest time, I was a Windows XP guy. The manual was translated poorly from Chinese, as is the software that comes with it. The top2004 isn't a bad piece of equipment. The programmer worked great, but only worked for one chip. I needed USB because in the process of making my own flash programmer a while back, I destroyed half the pins on my parallel port. This wondrous piece of Chinese equipment is cheap, cheap, and USB. On ebay a few years back, I bought the TOP2004. I had to find a USB flash/eeprom programmer that fit my hardcore lifestyle. Building basic circuits, programming microcontrollers, making malicious self-replicating robots programmed to hate humans, and even so much as wiring up complete motherboards with old processors and LCDs. I'll try to find a fix and update (BTW I'm using the latest VirtualBox as of this writing). At least it's able to program chips and stuff, but once loaded, the VM has to stay open and has to be running. ![]() So far, I have not found a way around this, as such the TOP2004 is effectively useless again. UPDATE - Apparently closing the VM, unplugging the programmer, unselecting the programmer from the USB device menu, or pausing the VM after the programmer has been loaded by the VM makes Windows 7 bluescreen. 2010 03.21 How to get the TOP2004 programmer running under Windows 7 64-bit
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