What I'm using
-Arduino Duemilanove
-Windows 7/Vista
-IDE 0018
-The most up to date Usb serial drivers available from FTDI
-6ft USB cable
Problems I'm experiencing:
-I was only ever able to upload the blink sketch to the board once, it would blink 4 times and then wait about a second then retsart. I found this very odd.
-When I tried to upload the same sketch again, It threw the following error:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51
Things I've tried
-reinstalling the ftdi drivers
-every possible combination of baud rates
-pressing the reset button immediately after the program compiles while uploading
-installing a new chip with a verified correct bootloader(installed in the correcy orientation)
-pulling the chip to and putting a jumper between pins 0 and 1 to check to see if serial works, It was verified to work
-Verified that the correct board is selected in the IDE
I'm completely stuck on what's wrong with this board, any ideas of what I should try short of buying a new one?