I have brought a Chinese Arduino UNO R3 and I want to use it to program an ATMEGA328P.
I have done the circuit as mentioned in Arduino on breadboard tutorial with all the components. But the Arduino's ATMEGA328P is soldered on the board as shown in the attachement. I am unable to upload sketches to the ATMEGA328P on my breadboard.
What circuit do you have on the breadboard? (There are a lot of terribad breadboard instructions online...)
Have you bootloaded it yet, if only to set the fuses?
Enable verbose uploads, and post the errors.
I think 90% chance it's a wiring problem,