[Francois1]

I am unable to do anything on my new CC3D Atom board.

When I connect it LibrePilot "sees" it and connects to it. The lights on my board go on and do their stuff and settles with my green light solid and my blue light beating (not fading on and off). I LibrePilot I am connected but I only have one dash in my Tx row and nothing in my Rx row.

From what I have read this means driver crap. Thing is I am unable to spot any changes under USB controllers so I do not know which one to uninstall. 

I went through the entire "Rescue" process. The bootloader recommended by LP does not even let my Atom boot. I am currently runnin some other firmware that let me get this far.

I weren't even able to Upgrade my board from the start. I am running Windows 8.1. Tried many USB cables and computers. Same result.

[Francois1]

Just solved it.

Was my own fault due to ignorance. I re-Flashed the firmware with the fw_coptercontrol.opfw from:
 https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/4128780/all_fw1509.tgz?version=1&modificationDate=1450528639726&api=v2

After this I followed these instuctions:
https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Troubleshooting

Problem solved.

[f5soh]

Firmware is already embeded into the GCS, no need to download.
Manual update work as well:
- Disconnect board
- Hit Upgrade&Erase
- Connect board
- Wait flashing procedure and reboot/erase


The usual issue i see is with old bootloader (v3) you need to download and update to v4.
https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Firmware+Tab#FirmwareTab-UpdateBootloaderandUpdatefirmware

[Francois1]

But that was the problem. I was not able to update my controller. Not even manually. I tried all the different methods, no result. That was when I figured the board was faulty and started playing with the firmware.

[f5soh]

That strange,
if you disconnect board and hit Upgrade&Erase

or

disconnect board and hit Rescue > Load firmware > Flash

the result should be the same.

The good thing is you finally resolved your issue