So, after beating my head against the wall, with two different Windows 11 machines, I used an old MacBook Pro and set it up to dual boot the MacOS and Windows 10. When booted in Windows 10, the driver loaded without issues and the rest of the firmware reinstallation when along just as fast as I could follow the rest of the steps. I have yet to put the board back in the printer, but if the machine comes back to life, no further news will be good news.
FOR ANYONE HAVING THEIR BOARD NOT LIGHT THE LEDS The instructions now say you have to leave the 24v power supplied to the board! Once I did this the guide worked perfectly!
Answering my own question after some thought. 24v you can get by connecting the motherboard directly to the printer power supply, with the red and black pins With a notebook or by bringing a printer close to the computer, you will be able to connect the motherboard to the 3D printer source and the USB cable to the computer and the motherboard
Thanks for the comment. I was scratching my head as to why the leds didn't come on. Good thing I got a power supply I hooked up and got it to power up.
Computer isn't detecting the printer when plugged in. Left all connections on. I'm able to get the led to stop blinking but when I go to "Device Manager" I don't see "Other Devices".
Thanks for the nice instruction...I pluged the mainboard to my computer with the good type of MicroUSB cable but nothing ...no blue lights ...nothing... could it be a dead board ? I rooted my Creality K1C but I don't like to handle the printer like this... Thanks for your answer and for your good job
I used your so simple and helpful guide but aparently the K1C board needs to powered also from the printers power supply or it doesnt turn on. I installed the drivers without any problem but when I'm doing the reset the blue light that should be off its very low dimmed and when I start the firmware burn from USBCloner the terminal wrights start burn but it doesnt do anything. I wait for 10-15 minutes and it doesnt do anything. Any suggestion? Please!
This worked for me, but on my older laptop. I disabled Windows Defender temporarily before installing the driver. On my newer laptop it wouldn't successfully install the driver for some reason.
I wonder if you can do this with only power disconnected since it appears everything else is accessible with the board installed. Maybe there is a back feed possibility to the daughter boards on the hotend and heat bed. Anyway thanks for posting this, I have seen this issue more than should on forums.
Yes you should be able to do this without disconnecting all the wires, as long as you are able to get the cord in. The cord we were using wouldn’t go in though so just assuming a lot of people will have the same issues. But if you can get it plugged in without disconnecting, definitely save yourself the time!
Same here, I've contacted Creality support and am waiting (day 3 now) for them to update my support ticket. I did find a reddit post titled "No Micro USB Port Anymore (K1 non Max)" from about 6 months ago that says, for some reason, Creality released boards without this port soldered on for a couple months back in August/September of 2023. I bought my K1 on Black Friday 2023 from Creality and was considering myself lucky to have gotten the newer version with the good extruder, only to now find out i got a defective mainboard. I bricked mine trying to reset back to factory firmware so i can update the K1 Helper Script & it just has a Creality logo on the screen now. At first it has a blue bit sliding through the logo before it just goes to a static Creality Logo. The recovery method here is the only other way to flash firmware to the board & I am unable to do this recovery process without this micro-USB as it won't work from the front USB. The spot is there for one to be soldered on, but i don't have the tools nor the skill to pull that off. I advise anyone in a similar predicament to contact Creality Support, especially if you're within your warranty period. Best case is Creality sends a new board, worst case I have to buy one for $80. They'll want a copy of your purchase invoice, photo of the serial number, photo/video of the issue, and your email, just a heads up. They seem to have neglected my J1 pins as well.
@@RafaelKaname stolen from what someone suggested on a bricked KE vid: For those having problems with the unsigned drivers, you'll need to boot windows in recovery mode (Shift + Restart) and then Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Start-up Settings and press Restart Then on the Startup Settings, press 7 to select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. This will restart your Windows and you would be able to install unsigned drivers
Thx for the nice quick instruction without Lots of water in it. Good job
So, after beating my head against the wall, with two different Windows 11 machines, I used an old MacBook Pro and set it up to dual boot the MacOS and Windows 10. When booted in Windows 10, the driver loaded without issues and the rest of the firmware reinstallation when along just as fast as I could follow the rest of the steps. I have yet to put the board back in the printer, but if the machine comes back to life, no further news will be good news.
FOR ANYONE HAVING THEIR BOARD NOT LIGHT THE LEDS
The instructions now say you have to leave the 24v power supplied to the board!
Once I did this the guide worked perfectly!
oh my case today.
How can I connection 24v USB micro?
Answering my own question after some thought. 24v you can get by connecting the motherboard directly to the printer power supply, with the red and black pins
With a notebook or by bringing a printer close to the computer, you will be able to connect the motherboard to the 3D printer source and the USB cable to the computer and the motherboard
Thanks for the comment. I was scratching my head as to why the leds didn't come on. Good thing I got a power supply I hooked up and got it to power up.
I done everything but I couldnt see device on my computer, can you help me?
Computer isn't detecting the printer when plugged in. Left all connections on. I'm able to get the led to stop blinking but when I go to "Device Manager" I don't see "Other Devices".
Thanks for the nice instruction...I pluged the mainboard to my computer with the good type of MicroUSB cable but nothing ...no blue lights ...nothing... could it be a dead board ? I rooted my Creality K1C but I don't like to handle the printer like this... Thanks for your answer and for your good job
I used your so simple and helpful guide but aparently the K1C board needs to powered also from the printers power supply or it doesnt turn on. I installed the drivers without any problem but when I'm doing the reset the blue light that should be off its very low dimmed and when I start the firmware burn from USBCloner the terminal wrights start burn but it doesnt do anything. I wait for 10-15 minutes and it doesnt do anything. Any suggestion?
Please!
ciao complimenti per I video sono bellissimi.
volevo chiederti come posso fare il reset totale della stampante,
ore funzionamento e tutto ?
grazie
This worked for me, but on my older laptop. I disabled Windows Defender temporarily before installing the driver. On my newer laptop it wouldn't successfully install the driver for some reason.
I wonder if you can do this with only power disconnected since it appears everything else is accessible with the board installed. Maybe there is a back feed possibility to the daughter boards on the hotend and heat bed. Anyway thanks for posting this, I have seen this issue more than should on forums.
Yes you should be able to do this without disconnecting all the wires, as long as you are able to get the cord in. The cord we were using wouldn’t go in though so just assuming a lot of people will have the same issues. But if you can get it plugged in without disconnecting, definitely save yourself the time!
help not showing in my device manager?
After opening Cloner exe I can't see the update file. The file with the extension . ing is not visible
Exactly what i have to do, but there's no usb port soldered on my k1 board, also the J1 pins are not there...
Hmm that’s weird, I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be there
Same here, I've contacted Creality support and am waiting (day 3 now) for them to update my support ticket. I did find a reddit post titled "No Micro USB Port Anymore (K1 non Max)" from about 6 months ago that says, for some reason, Creality released boards without this port soldered on for a couple months back in August/September of 2023. I bought my K1 on Black Friday 2023 from Creality and was considering myself lucky to have gotten the newer version with the good extruder, only to now find out i got a defective mainboard. I bricked mine trying to reset back to factory firmware so i can update the K1 Helper Script & it just has a Creality logo on the screen now. At first it has a blue bit sliding through the logo before it just goes to a static Creality Logo. The recovery method here is the only other way to flash firmware to the board & I am unable to do this recovery process without this micro-USB as it won't work from the front USB. The spot is there for one to be soldered on, but i don't have the tools nor the skill to pull that off. I advise anyone in a similar predicament to contact Creality Support, especially if you're within your warranty period. Best case is Creality sends a new board, worst case I have to buy one for $80. They'll want a copy of your purchase invoice, photo of the serial number, photo/video of the issue, and your email, just a heads up.
They seem to have neglected my J1 pins as well.
does this work for K1 SE???
Hello, is the file K1C compatible?
I'm not getting any blue lights any suggestions?
Is your device reading the board?
Same here and mine my computer is not reading the board
@@RafaelKaname stolen from what someone suggested on a bricked KE vid:
For those having problems with the unsigned drivers, you'll need to boot windows in recovery mode (Shift + Restart) and then Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Start-up Settings and press Restart
Then on the Startup Settings, press 7 to select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. This will restart your Windows and you would be able to install unsigned drivers
how did you brick the printer?
Not 100% sure, but out of nowhere it stopped working properly. Until now we didn’t think we had the time to fix it, but this is a fairly quick fix.
My mainboard has no micro USB on it anywhere 😭 any ideas?
I thought it was on all of them. When did you get your printer?
dont work! when i start it start updating firmware but in stage1 20% get errors only ....lol its jokeprinter
can ı use for k1c ? ı have same problem .f*ck