I tried putting a new Atmega328P-PU chip in my Arduino Duemilanove and burning the Arduino bootloader using Arduino 1.0 on OS X using an AVRISP mkII. It's been 5 minutes and the Arduino program is frozen, and the orange light and the green light are both on on the AVRISP mkII.
Should I just force quit the program?
What could be going on here? How can I diagnose this?
After 10 minutes of sitting there it finally came back and said Error while burning bootloader.
I know I could use the Arduino as a programmer to program the new chip, but I have the ulterior motive of wanting to program AVRs using my AVRISP mkII. I've successfully used it before, but I'm starting to worry I killed it or something.
Eh, I looked, none of those links are really helpful, especially because I'm on OS X not Windows.
And I have been searching through forums, lots of forums, here, avrfreaks, pololu, adafruit, sparkfun, sites I've never even heard of before... trust me, I've already spent several days this week digging for more information.
I'm starting to get a bit disenchanted by this search.
You'd think Atmel would provide some sort of help support system for people just starting out.
I think if I had bought a USBtiny I would probably get more support from the adafruit forum than I would have from Atmel
I have an LED on pin 9 on the programmer board and it pulses on and off slowly when the ArduinoISP is idle.
If I try to program the chip on the other board it says:
avrdude:stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x15
If I put 4 470 ohm resistors in parallel (to get 117 ohms) and use those to connect 5V and RESET and that didn't help either.