Problems uploading to Meduino mEGA 2560 Mini

Hi, has anyone ever successfully uploaded sketches to the Meduino MEGA 2560 Mini board?
I am having problems uploading to this noard and getting board errors asfollows

"an error occurred while uploading the sketch"

the in the section below, it reads

"avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage():timeout"
"avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage():timeout"
"avrdude: stk500v2_getsync():timeout communicating with programmer"
"an error occured while uploading sketch"

Can anyone offer advice?
Please