Arduino NG with ATMEGA168 bootloader problems

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Troubleshooting
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maybe someone of you encountered such problems:
i'v tried to burn a bootloader (using a parallel programer) to the 168 but without any sucsess.
in the arduino enviorment it says:

avrdude: AVR device not responding
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

the thing is that i'v burned a bootloader to a ATMEGA8 sucsessfully
(not trough the arduino enviorment,
it gave the same massege.
i used ISP PROGRAMMER by Adam Dybowski)
and it worked.

trough isp programmer i also tried burn a small led controlling program to thest the chip, it was burned
and worked but the timing of the program (delays) were trippled :-?

i have tried to burn an older bootloader also but with same results:
when i try to d/l a sketch it gives the following massage:

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

has any idea about what's going on ??

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Was the first error you mentioned what you got when you tried to burn the bootloader? Or once you had burned the bootloader and tried to upload a sketch?

From the LED timing, it sounds like the fuses on the chip are wrong. The Burn Bootloader commands not only burn a hex file but also set the fuses. If you burn the bootloader outside the Arduino environment you need to set the fuses as well.

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i couldn't burn it from the arduino environment ... only trough other apps and the bootloader didn't burn eventualy ...
only a sketch without the bootloader