Avrdude: stk500_rcv(): programmer is not responding

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I'm using an Arduino Uno.

  1. My menu selection has "Arduino Uno (COM3)" which I've selected.
  2. My "L" LED keeps blinking as if the "BLINK" sketch is running continuously. It stops when I hit reset then resumes again.
  3. While trying to upload a sketch the "RX" LED blinks once in a while. TX never blinks.
  4. After I push the reset button, I get a message from Windows Explorer "Power surge on USB port, unknown USB device needs more power than the port can supply"
  5. the power LED is on continuously.
  6. There are no shields or wires connected to the board.

Here are the messages from the IDE:

Sketch uses 444 bytes (1%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32256 bytes.
Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.
"C:\Users\rkhanna\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/bin/avrdude" "-CC:\Users\rkhanna\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -V -patmega328p -carduino "-PCOM3" -b115200 -D "-Uflash:w:C:\Users\rkhanna\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino\sketches\F571C0D1BC310F2E91C2C6CE2A167EA4/sketch_apr14a.ino.hex:i"

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

     System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\rkhanna\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

     Using Port                    : COM3
     Using Programmer              : arduino
     Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x98

avrdude done. Thank you.

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Is the rhythm the same as blink? One second on, one second off. Or is it different?

Any chance that your board is laying on a conductive surface (this includes antistatic foam)?
Can you provide a history of the board? Is it new? Did it work in the past? If the latter, what was the last project that you were working on?

Anything getting hot?

If you press and release the reset button, do you get a few quick flashes on the L-LED?

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