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I have successfully put together my ISP shield http://www.ladyada.net/library/arduino/arduinoisp.html.  I mounted this on my Duemilanove and loaded my code onto my ATmega328p via the Arduino IDE 1.0. 

Everything appears to work just fine, as I don't receive back any error codes.  However, when I place the chip on my breadboard setup according to this instructable http://www.instructables.com/id/Standalone-Arduino-ATMega-chip-on-breadboard/, nothing happens.

I have simple code, that I've tried with my UNO, and it works as expected, but not the 328.  I even tried another 328, but no change.

Any ideas as to what I'm missing???  It seems to be too simple, yet it doesn't work.   

Just in case, here's my code:

Code:

int led = 9;
int myTimer;

void setup(){
 
  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(led, LOW);

}

void loop(){

    for(int i=35; i > 0; i--){
      myTimer = i * 20;

        digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
      delay(myTimer);

        digitalWrite(led, LOW);
      delay(myTimer);

     }
 }

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I am willing to bet you may be putting the LED on the wrong chip pin.

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I also wonder about your power supply?  The Instructable suggests (under Option/Alternative #1) that any switching regulated supply from 5V to 16V is OK to use without a 5V regulator.  Yikes!

It would be a good idea to put a resistor and LED on D13 (chip pin 19).  The bootloader will flash this 3 times at startup whether or not a sketch is loaded.  Provides a nice visual confirmation that the bootloader is present and working.

I'm also going to put in a plug for what I think is a particularly good ISP shield (I have no affiliation):
http://evilmadscience.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/253

The LED's can tell you a lot about what is, or isn't, happening.

Jim

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I am willing to bet you may be putting the LED on the wrong chip pin.

I checked that about 27 times.  And then another 2 more after reading your post.

I was hoping it was that simple, but not this time.

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I also wonder about your power supply?  The Instructable suggests (under Option/Alternative #1) that any switching regulated supply from 5V to 16V is OK to use without a 5V regulator.  Yikes!

It would be a good idea to put a resistor and LED on D13 (chip pin 19).  The bootloader will flash this 3 times at startup whether or not a sketch is loaded.  Provides a nice visual confirmation that the bootloader is present and working.

I'm also going to put in a plug for what I think is a particularly good ISP shield (I have no affiliation):
http://evilmadscience.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/253

The LED's can tell you a lot about what is, or isn't, happening.

Jim

Okay, I do have the 5V regulator.  I checked with my volt-meter, and I do have 4.98V feeding the circuit.

I used your idea with the LED on D13.  It blinks, but doesn't stop after 3 blinks. 

The ISP shield you mention looks really nice (and wish I'd seen that earlier), however, I would really like to get working what I've got.  From everything I see on the web, there's no reason for it not to work.

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Did you install a bootloader on the 328?  How?  Using the IDE?

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Remember that digital pin 9 is probably not the same was physical pin 9.