Espruino dead on windows 8 after first write

Hi,

I have been trying to get my espruino working for several weeks on windows without luck.

I have posted about this before but did not get a response.

It worked fine on my first attempt, I sent the demo code to the board from the web ide:

var  l = false;
setInterval(function() {
  l = !l;
  LED1.write(l);
}, 500);

This did not seem to load to the espruino and since then it will not assign my espruino a com address. I can access the espruino on a mac, however I do not have ready access to a mac so this is not a solution.

There is no information on this issue in the troubleshooting, I would try a reflash however without being able to connect to the web ide or putty due to lack of a com address my espruino is essentially useless.

Has anyone had similar issues? surely there is another way to reset the espruino back to factory without having to buy myself a mac.