Problems with arduino bootloader (new forum)

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You may have seen my topic on the old forum : http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1294997078
To reassume i have two "Atmega168 20pu" chips without any bootloader
I have tried three methods to put the bootloader
a) using arduinoisp with 16 mhz crystal
b) bitbang mode
c) using usbtinyISP

on all of these methods i get :
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

using avrdude from the command line

"C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-0022\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude.exe" -C "C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-0022\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf" -p m168 -P com5 -c avrisp -b 19200 -F

I get :
avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
avrdude: Expected signature for ATMEGA168 is 1E 94 06

same are the results using winavr...

2

Run this...

C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-0022\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude.exe" -C "C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-0022\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf" -p m168 -P com5 -c avrisp -b 19200 -v -v -v

Post the results. Please use code tags.

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There you go . I am using usbtiny.

"C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-0
022\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude.exe" -C "C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino-002
2\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf" -p m168 -c usbtiny -b 19200 -v -v -v

avrdude.exe: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct 11 2007 at 19:12:32
             Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

             System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files\Arduino\arduino
-0022\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf"

             Using Port            : lpt1
             Using Programmer      : usbtiny
             Overriding Baud Rate  : 19200
             AVR Part              : ATMEGA168
             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         :

                                      Block Poll               Page
          Polled
               Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW
 MaxW   ReadBack
               ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ -----
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               eeprom        65     5     4    0 no        512    4      0  3600
  3600 0xff 0xff
                                      Block Poll               Page
          Polled
               Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW
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               ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ -----
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               flash         65     6   128    0 yes     16384  128    128  4500
  4500 0xff 0xff
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               Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW
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               lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500
  4500 0x00 0x00
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  4500 0x00 0x00
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               lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500
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             Programmer Type : USBTINY
             Description     : USBtiny simple USB programmer

avrdude.exe: Using SCK period of 10 usec
CMD: [ac 53 00 00] [00 00 00 00]
CMD: [ac 53 00 00] [00 00 00 00]
avrdude.exe: initialization failed, rc=-1
             Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
             this check.


avrdude.exe done.  Thank you.

Using usbtinyISP i can read with success my original atmega 368 bundled with my arduino duemillanove.
Thanks

4

Do you have a 16 MHz crystal connected to the 168 processor?

5

yes of course ...

6

It looks like the 168 processor is not responding to the programmer. I know that doesn't help but, unfortunately, it's all I have to offer. You've proven the programmer and software are working. I cannot think of anything else to try.

7

Hello again and thanks to all for your support and feedback !
I have sent back the two ATMEGA 168 and i got back two others from the same seller.
Now everything works like a charm.
The first one i have put the bootloader using usbtiny + arduino (without the usb cable) with the ICSP cable. No problems at all i just used the arduino gui normally.
The second one i have used the usbtiny with my handmade arduino breadboard. I only pressed the reset button once then the bootloader was successfully loaded via the arduino gui.

So it was so simple that i did not even use avrdude directly but only within arduino GUI

Thanks !