Can't upload a sketch from the IDE to my bare-bone Arduino Nano

magagna:
The standard Nano you have is using the Duemilanove bootloader, which works at 57600. Even though it's a different form factor, you program it by picking "Duemilanove" from the board type menu.

The Uno uses OptiBoot for its bootloader, which works at 115200 baud. It's the new standard because it's smaller (512 bytes vs about 2K). When you burned your new standalone chip you got OptiBoot.

So, if you treat your new Nano clone as a Uno, everything should work fine.

Good luck!

Yes he somehow loaded the Uno's bootloader onto his standalone nano setup. That will work if he selects the Uno as the board selection prior to performing a IDE serial upload.

However he will lose I believe the ability to use the extra 2 analog input pins that the nano's version of the SMD 328p chip has. If he wants those back be has to edit the nano/328 entry in the core's boards.txt file to reflect having the Uno's bootloader name, path, baud rate, fuse bytes, memory size, etc.

Lefty