I should mention that i have also tried to communicate with my ATMEGA328P-PU using RX and TX as mentionned on http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard
And i am getting this result :
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 "E:\dev\arduino\arduino-1.0.2\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : \\.\COM3
Using Programmer : stk500v1
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude done. Thank you.
It seems to be the samee problem...
I definatly think my atmega16u2 is dead...
Thanks for any help