This is the first time I am powering it up. It is brand new.
I've made it's startup initialization settings:
And when I upload the program that ---WORKS--- with arduino UNO, here with Nano, is throwing me error of not uploading.
But in the initialization is recognizing the device and automatically switching to port 6 as you can see in the screenshot. So the board is recognized.
What trick do I miss to make it work?
Thank you.
Just to be clear, you have Nano selected as the board and cannot upload a sketch with either ATmega328P or ATmega328P (Old Bootloader) selected as the processor
Is that correct ?
Are you sure that you are using a USB data cable rather than a USB charger cable with no data wires in it ?
Why does your screenshot show that the board is connected to COM1 ?
I thought on the exact same thing and if the cable was a power cable, then the error was quicker and not trying to connect. The board is blinking when I plug the cable in it and my PC blips from it's driver. It automatically recognized the driver for the board:
when I connected it the first time. (I also was smart to take the screenshot of it)
So if it was a simple power cable, it could not detect the board and its driver. I also looked inside the plug and it has the small metal data pins on it. Usually on a power cable you have 2 metal pins on the sides but plastic in the middle - usually. So my cable is data+power.
Because I did a lot of tests and probably remained there when I took the shot. Sometimes is redirecting me automatically to COM6. It doesnt like COM1. Probably knows something is on COM6 already.
Hold on !! NOW is WORKING !!! Just like that.
I give a restart to PC, Ive updated this 'main" (I guess) driver and after some delay, a couple of try and errors, it just started to work.
I first notice the 'Blink' test program was working and then I uploaded my original program I was trying in the first place, and it works as well.
A little bit of hiccup in the beginning but it is good now.
Thank you for the support so far ! It appeared your "old bootloader" was the key.
And these are the settings I used
In the past, I had received an order of "new bootloader" Nano clones, but tried the old bootloader. This made the devices inoperable; couldn't download sketches. Just about tossed them.
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Good news is, I was able to reload the "new bootloader" using this article:
That's interesting, because the link'd page you sent explicitly calls out the normal bootloader.
But there have been many, many instances of Nano clones shipped with old that claimed new, and new that claimed old, so that's just the way it is.
Save that link I sent, sooner or later you'll have an unresponsive Nano, and it's worth a try.
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Indeed-indeed. So there was my first distrust and I was right.
I will write to them as well. But who is listening really? Haha.
I hope they do. We'll see.
Thank you, I am taking under consideration everything you guys here are telling me. This link will remain here in this forum thread for the future so it is 'saved'. I will come back to it when problems will arrive. I hope not.
For the moment, "I will not scratch if it doesnt eat me", so I will leave it alone as it is working already. But if it is stopping to work, I get your point and I will remember to check back that link.
Thank you !
