So, apparantly this is a common error, which many people have fixed many different ways, none of which have worked for me.
I have two different Arduinos - an NG and an Uno, with an Atmega168 and 328 respectively. Both of these have the bootloader burnt onto them. I'm looking to burn the Arduino bootloader onto another 2 Atmega328 chips I purchased (from Digikey).
So, I set up the connections as given on the Arduino site, using the NG's 168 to program the new 328 that I put onto the Uno. It doesn't work, and running avrdude -C "path\to\avrdude.conf" -p atmega328p -b19200 -P COM5 -c avrisp -v -v -v returns
avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 19:38:36
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "I:\Users\Collin\Documents\Arduino IDE\hardware\tools\avr
\etc\avrdude.conf"
Using Port : COM5
Using Programmer : avrisp
Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
AVR Part : ATMEGA328P
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PC2
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :
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eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
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flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
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lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
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hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
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efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
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lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
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calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
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signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : STK500
Description : Atmel AVR ISP
Hardware Version: 2
Firmware Version: 1.16
Vtarget : 0.0 V
Varef : 0.0 V
Oscillator : Off
SCK period : 0.1 us
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.05s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
avrdude done. Thank you.
Here's everything I've done. Each step resulted in the same error when running the aforementioned command.
- Thinking maybe it was an issue programming using the NG or the 168, I rearrange things so that I'm using the Uno - with a 328 - to program a 328 in the NG.
- I then try every permutation of board and chip.
- Thinking that maybe I had bricked one chip with all the shuffling, I tried a different (new) 328.
- Thinking maybe both had arrived DOA, I tried with my known-good 168 chip.
- Tried it with the known-good 328 ship.
- Thinking that I had just wasted an hour when one of the wires I was using was intermittent, but they all tested good, and swapping them out with others made no difference.
- Thinking maybe there was something wrong with one of my boards, I dropped a fresh 328 onto a breadboard and set it up as instructed, using the Uno+328 to program.
- Tried the same with the NG and 168 as ISP.
- Tried different programmer settings (
-c arduino,avrisp,stk500) - Tried various settings of
-B ###with avrdude - Tried lots of the above on a Mac and a PC
- Tried using an external 5V source
- Tried adafruit's fork of ArduinoISP
- Tried optiloader loaded onto either board - got non-descriptive error
0x0 - When programming with the Uno, pulled the reset pin high (165 ohms)
- When programming with the Uno, attached a 100uF capacitor between ground and reset
I know at least some connection is being made between the two chips as, when programming with the Uno against the NG, if I don't hold the Digital 10/Reset pin to pin 1 of the target chip, I get a stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51 error. And yes, at the end of this both original chips are still working fine, so I don't think I've messed either up them up despite all of this.
Here's a picture of one of my setups - yes, the yellow wire is indeed to reset, not 3v3. Lower NG board is supposed to be programming the chip in the upper Uno.
