Arduino to breadboard with ATmega168 (8MHz and 3.3V)

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Dear All,

I would like to have a standalone arduino with an ATmega168-20PU running at 3.3V.

I followed instructions here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone and I used a 8MHz crystal instead of using the one at 16.

I loaded the ArduinoISP sketch into my Arduino Uno, then I connected it to the board like this: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard using the 3.3V instead to the 5V pin.

I choose "Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8MHz) w/ ATmega168" and burned the bootloader successfully.

I was able to upload my sketches to my breadboard arduino with the same connection above using "Upload using programmer" and it was working great.

Unfortunately, now it is not working anymore.

avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

I double checked connections and are good, I disconnected all not needed wires leaving only the original ones, but nothing.

I have used a new ATmega168-20PU also but the following error message appears when trying to burn the bootloader:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
         0xff != 0x00
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

Does anyone has an advice on how to solve this, please?
Thank you
dk

2

This
"I was able to upload my sketches to my breadboard arduino with the same connection above using "Upload using programmer" and it was working great."
wiped out your bootloader.
Re-burn the bootloader and go back to just Upload to put sketches on.

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Dear CrossRoads,
thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately I'm not able to burn the bootloader anymore, I tried several times and always get this error back:

Arduino: 1.0.6 (Windows 7), Board: "Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8 MHz) w/ ATmega168"
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

Verbose:

avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep  2 2011 at 19:38:36
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Paolo\Downloads\arduino-1.0.6-windows\arduino-1.0.6\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : \\.\COM12
         Using Programmer              : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
         AVR Part                      : ATMEGA168
         Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
         PAGEL                         : PD7
         BS2                           : PC2
         RESET disposition             : dedicated
         RETRY pulse                   : SCK
         serial program mode           : yes
         parallel program mode         : yes
         Timeout                       : 200
         StabDelay                     : 100
         CmdexeDelay                   : 25
         SyncLoops                     : 32
         ByteDelay                     : 0
         PollIndex                     : 3
         PollValue                     : 0x53
         Memory Detail                 :

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         Programmer Type : STK500
         Description     : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [80]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [02] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [81]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [01] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [82]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [12] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [98]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
         Hardware Version: 2
         Firmware Version: 1.18
         Topcard         : Unknown
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [84]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [85]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [86]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [87]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [89]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
         Vtarget         : 0.0 V
         Varef           : 0.0 V
         Oscillator      : Off
         SCK period      : 0.1 us

avrdude: Send: A [41] . [81]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [01] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [82]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [12] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: B [42] . [86] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [01] . [01] . [01] . [03] . [ff] . [ff] . [ff] . [ff] . [00] . [80] . [02] . [00] . [00] . [00] @ [40] . [00]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: E [45] . [05] . [04] . [d7] . [c2] . [00]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: P [50]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [00] . [00]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [01] . [00]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
################avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [02] . [00]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [00] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 
################################## | 100% 0.06s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

avrdude: Send: Q [51]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: . [14] 
avrdude: Recv: . [10] 

avrdude done.  Thank you.

It looks like the signature is not right.. but I don't understand.

In this post http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=49183.8;msg=351580 they state it might be the bitrate of the programmer to be lowered, but they refer to AVRISP mkII which I don't have since I use my Uno as ISP.

What do you think?
Thank you,
dk