Unable to connect my MKS ODRIVE to my PC

[calmosamigos]

Hi everyone I am on a problem since a while and it is becoming worse and worse.
I am using a Makerbase MKS ODRIVE MINI V1.0 that is also showed and discussed by @Justlovescience in his video and Github.

Firstly when i was in the command prompt and using odrivetool, the Odrive kept deconnecting after ~ 10s of connection which didn’t let me time to calibrate it. I then went in the settings of my computer to deactivate the settings that disabled the USB ports after a while for power usage… didn’t change anything. I also used Zadig to try to install another driver.
When i tried again today, it didn’t even connect. The board is clean and i did not mess it up at all bu my PC won’t show it in the device manager or even with Zadig. I tried to flash it by pressing BOOT when plugin it in but it didn’t work. I am now leaning towards installing the firmware that is in the Github of Justlovescience but if my Board doesn’t connect it won’t work (I tried with STM32 cube programmer). I have no idea of what to do in this situation i nearly begin electronics with BLDCs.
Thanks for ur help

[dekutree64]

@calmosamigos

I tried with STM32 cube programmer

Was that with ST-link or via USB? I have an old ODrive 3.6 (official) that dropped dead for no reason one day, and at some point I thought to try connecting to the MCU via ST-link with STM32CubeProgrammer and it worked. But I didn’t actually flash a new firmware or investigate any further than that, so I don’t know if the USB would work with different firmware, or what all else may be wrong with it. Never got any response about it on the ODrive forum either (a different guy had the same problem, so apparently this is pretty common for ODrives).