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Oh, I forgot to mention I put these two feature requests in on behalf of Peer Janssen to encourage him to start with this. I have other plans for myself.

Font Awesome folks apparently changed their minds about a few things. - The font is split in three packages now (more with a Pro license). - Package 'solid' contains about...

Another change I just found is: the FontAwesome general CSS class is no longer `fa`, but `fas`, `fab` or `far`, depending on the used set. Which means, `class="fa fa-github"` no...

I'd start with connecting by a serial port terminal (GtkTerm, PuTTY, ...) to see whether communications is actually faulty. Then Pronterface. Repetier host is known to have its own idea...

@ZKing1000, of course you can get a couple of them. It's not explicitly mentioned, one can get every part as a spare part: https://www.reprap-diy.com/start

What is an "installation walkthrough"? Yes, there's an SMD chip on the solder side. It's the MCP2200, an USB - Serial converter. See third picture here: http://reprap.org/wiki/Gen7_Board-AVR_1.5#Assembly_in_Detail

Looks like you found the one for v1.4.1, which didn't have this chip. For v1.5 I kept these instruction rarther short (making them is lots of work and you have...

That's a general problem with externally powered USB devices. PC and device (in this case your Gen7) connect ground, but not supply voltages. Fluctuations in power can lead to a...

Yes, 5VUSB is unconnected to avoing making things worse. Also, USB has no error recovery, in some circumstances messages can simply get stuck. Enhancing the G-code sending host to reset...

Using a serial "dongle" doesn't change the problem. And yes, disabling auto-reset avoids automatic reset.