First of all apologies is this has been covered before, but I couldn't find any mentions of a work around searching the forum.
I don't know if others have been having issues getting sam-ba to run under vista or windows 7 x64 but I have a work around for the issue. I have read in several places that there is a driver issue with x64 windows OS's and that it wont run. However I think the issue is with WOW64 (32 bit mode).
Normally when i try and start sam-ba the program either never opens or takes an age > 5mins to appear. I could see the process in task manager but couldn't use the program. After a frustration got the better of me and double clicked the shortcut about 20 times and still no joy I opened task manager and noticed that their were an equal number of tasklist.exe in the process list as sam-ba processes, I killed the tasklist process and low and behold sam-ba opened and worked as expected.
Having discovered this work around i implemented it as simple batch script and now sam-ba opens instantly for me.
YMMV but the batch is as follows:
@ECHO OFF :: Start SAM-BA START sam-ba.exe :: Wait a second more details here http://www.robvanderwoude.com/wait.php pipe output to nul so ping doesnt display PING 127.0.0.1 -n 2 > NUL :: End the tasklist process preventing SAM-BA from opening TASKKILL /F /IM tasklist* > NUL
To use simply create a new text file in your SAM-BA installation folder (by default C:\Program Files (x86)\ATMEL Corporation\sam-ba_2.11) and copy the snippet above into it ensuring you save it with a .bat extension. (In Notepad File->Save As->Save As File Type - Choose All Files (*.*) and set the file name as Sam-Ba-Launcher.bat -> Click 'Ok')
Then run the batch file with administrative privileges (right click and run as administrator), and sam-ba should now open with a second or 2.
If you like the sam-ba icon then you can create a shortcut on you desktop and set the shortcut to execute with admin privileges.
Was driving me nuts waiting for it to open.
