Hi All,
I bought a mega clone from ebay that uses the ch340g. I initially thought this was broken because I kept getting time out errors from it when using it with the arduino IDE (1.6.5) and windows 7.
I've found if I use the same IDE on windows XP and the same exe driver file to install the ch340g driver it works perfectly.
Could this be a probllem with the driver for windows 7?
Can it be fixed?
Here are the errors:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega2560 -cwiring -PCOM5 -b115200 -D -Uflash:w:C:\Users\WES~1.ARM\AppData\Local\Temp\build4229529794865674763.tmp/Blink.cpp.hex:i
avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Apr 15 2015 at 19:59:58
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : COM5
Using Programmer : wiring
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
avrdude done. Thank you.
Cheers!