For the past few weeks I've been working on a project using an Arduino Uno R3 (SMD), unfortunetly a screw came loose within the project box and shorted the board. The board is no longer recognised on a win 8 enviroment using USB, I've also tried the loop back test without any luck. The board doesn't seem to be damaged in any other way, I get a power on light and the board doesn't generate any heat when plugged in.
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Taking a closer look at the board the ATMega16u2 USB Chip has blown!
I don't really want to get rid of the board unless I'm absolutely sure it's not working. I can't find any relavent instructions regarding this, does anyone know if it is it possible to use an FTDI programmer to bypass the on-board USB?
Neil
Sure, connect it to the D0, D1 pins, connect DTR thru a 0.1uF cap to the Reset pin, Gnd to Gnd,. +5 to +5.
Thanks CrossRoads! I've hooked it up but it looks like the board is dead. The screw short must have done some other damage to the board.
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(Picture for the sake of documentation incase anyone comes across this topic and it's of use.)
I've just tried to upload the blink sketch to test the board but all I get from the IDE (1.6.0) is
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x01
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Thank you for the info with hooking it up to FTDI.