In the past I have used the Aquaero 5 and 6LT, have been away from the hobby for awhile, am now running aircooled but wanted to get back in the game and bought a Octo to start with.
Am running Linux Mint and I know all about the problems, so I am running a Windows 10 VM, in which the Octo is recognised both by Windows and Aquasuite. When I load Aquasuite X.47 I get the message that I need to update the firmware of the device. When I start the firmware update the LED on the Octo starts flashing error (maybe this is normal when updating the firmware?) and shortly thereafter Aquasuite tells me that the update failed.
I have tried putting the Octo on different headers on my motherboard, I have nothing connected to it besides power and the USB cable. I don't have another computer to try and update with. Is it the VM that is causing my problem? If so, I haven't read much about it. Many people seem to be running Aquacomputer devices in a VM, so if that works, why shouldn't the fimware update work?
Best Regards,
Johan

Ok, so it would seem that either noone has encountered this problem before me, noone is interested in helping or the answer is something obvious that I should have seen, but didn't, or since using a VM isn't officially supported I'm on my own.

Anyway, for whatever it's worth I'm gonna post how I solved the problem, maybe it can help someone else when they encounter the same issue, or it will just get buried amongst the other threads in the forum.
What I did was to download the Windows 10 ISO File:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software…ad/windows10ISO
Then i downloaded WinToUSB:
https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
WinToUSB uses the ISO image to create a Windows 10 installation on the USB drive, you can then run Windows 10 directly from the USB drive. Doing that, I had no problems updating the firmware on the Octo and now it works just fine running Aquasuite X.47 on my Windows 10 VM under Linux Mint.
Hopefully this can help somebody else someday...until Linux support has been implemented this is one way of doing it.