I need help choosing an EEPROM programmer

[Spazmonkey]

I know that there's an expert on everything somewhere on here, so I thought I should ask about this. I am wanting to pick an EEPROM programmer, but have no idea which to pick on ebay. I want to spend as little as possible, have vista support, 8 pin chips through 40 pin support, and be USB compatible. Here's hoping someone can help out.

 

[mainman]

I know that there's an expert on everything somewhere on here, so I thought I should ask about this. I am wanting to pick an EEPROM programmer, but have no idea which to pick on ebay. I want to spend as little as possible, have vista support, 8 pin chips through 40 pin support, and be USB compatible. Here's hoping someone can help out.

Normally I would suggest a Willem Eprom programmer as they are cheap and reliable being able to program up to 42 pin 32 meg eproms and all modern eproms made from 1990 and up (no pacman support) but you killed it when you said vista support as that POS OS doesn't support crap.

 

[Spazmonkey]

Well, vista is my only OS, so I need to have it. I was looking at a few willems actually.

 

[Mithos]

If you could somehow get the burning program to work in Linux I'd suggest making a live CD with that program already preconfigured and boot that every time you need to use your programmer. It's a pain in the ass, but Vista is a bitch when it comes to compatibility.

 

[Xian Xi]

Your better off "downgrading" to XP.

 

[Spazmonkey]

But I can't. I would have to wipe my HD, and I like vista, nothing wrong with it. Are there ANY programmers that work with vista?

 

[Nesagwa]

Not sure if this would work, but you could run Windows XP (or 2k or whatever its compatible with) through a virtual machine for the programmer.

 

[Spazmonkey]

I heard that uses a lot of RAM, and laptop only has 2 gigs, which is barely enough to feed vista. I would love it to be so though, that would be too easy.

 

[cannonball]

Consider using XP or 2K for any type of development if you're serious about it.

Oh and...

and I like vista, nothing wrong with it.

I heard that uses a lot of RAM, and laptop only has 2 gigs, which is barely enough to feed vista.

 

[Mithos]

I heard that uses a lot of RAM, and laptop only has 2 gigs, which is barely enough to feed vista. I would love it to be so though, that would be too easy.

Eh, I've been able to run a VM on my laptop with only 2gb of RAM while running Vista. It's not taxing if you know how to set things up properly.


EDIT: Oh and you could also look into resizing the Vista Partition and installing XP or something. You could then dual boot and go into XP or whatever anytime you needed to program something.

 

[channelmaniac]

Good luck with getting a VM to work with a programmer...

If you want a programmer that works with Vista, you'll need some cash and a lot of time. It's hard to find one that works with it. They monkied with the driver subsystem and it's totally different.

 

[ttooddddyy]

http://www.eetools.com/

 

[Xian Xi]

http://www.eetools.com/

Those are nice but none of them support vista bro.

 

[warmachine]

You should be able to install xp onto a usb flash drive.

 

[ttooddddyy]

Those are nice but none of them support vista bro.

In that case run XP

 

[Spazmonkey]

Yeah, I'm getting an external HDD so I can just back up mine, and get dual booting working.

 

[ttooddddyy]

Yeah, I'm getting an external HDD so I can just back up mine, and get dual booting working.

The only way to go