AVR Pocket Programmer is not bootloading arduino uno

Hey Everyone,

My arduino wasn't taking code and I was told to get an AVR pocket programmer to bootload arduino (avrdude was not responding). I followed the instructions on sparkfun to program and I got a message reading "avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding". I tried switching around the pins and nothing worked. I would love to have my arduino up and running again so I would love to know how to fix this error and get back to making! Thanks so much!

-Arduino Roboticist

Also here is the link if that helps: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/installing-an-arduino-bootloader

Is the driver for the pocket programmer installed and did you select correct port for the programmer?