How do you gracefully disconnect Arduino board?

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I recently purchased the lillypad development kit. I am running Win 7 x64 Home Premium. When I plugged the development system with a USB cable into my notebooks USB 3 port, Windows installed the latest FTDI driver.

Since it does not show up as a USB device, I can not unmount the development kit. So I pulled out the USB connect. When I later plug the USB connector, I can download software to the development system. However, the FTDI comm port does not show up so there is no serial communication with the development kit. If I reboot, the comm port will show up.

Is there a way to cleaning disconnect the development kit so I don’t have to reboot every time?

Thanks

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It shouldn’t need to be - they are plug and play, or at least thats the theory. Windows 7 should detect when it is connected and reassign the com port. My FTDI breakout can be just unconnected/reconnected without any hassle - if I am using arduino, i don’t even have to restart that.

You could try going into device manager and getting windows to try and update the driver. Just a thought.

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I did check the driver version. MS picked up the 2.8.24 FTDI driver.