Hello everyone !
It's been a few hours that I've been trying to reset the bootloader of my Elegoo Uno R3 card from an Arduino Uno card as ISP but I get stuck at a new step.
My Elegoo Uno R3 card is no longer working (not even a led that flashes when I press the reset button but they are turned on) and so I have to burn the bootloader. It has an Atmega 328P-PU microcontroller, identical to the following picture.

By following the steps described by this web page, I run the example ArduinoISP and try to burn the bootloader of the Elegoo with the programmer "Arduino as ISP". My Arduino Uno has also an Atmega328P chip, the port correctly connected. My wiring are exactly as shown here except that the "not working arduino" is an Elegoo :
I have also connected the 3 leds so that my arduino can show me the 3 following information: heartbeat, error and programming state of the SPI Arduino.
The start of the bootloader works but stops rather quickly. Here are the details:
Arduino: 1.8.13 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino Uno"
/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -C/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega328p -cstk500v1 -P/dev/cu.usbmodem1452301 -b19200 -e -Ulock:w:0x3F:m -Uefuse:w:0xFD:m -Uhfuse:w:0xDE:m -Ulfuse:w:0xFF:m
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 "/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/Users/nicolas/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : /dev/cu.usbmodem1452301
Using Programmer : stk500v1
Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
AVR Part : ATmega328P
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 :
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : STK500
Description : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
Hardware Version: 2
Firmware Version: 1.18
Topcard : Unknown
Vtarget : 0.0 V
Varef : 0.0 V
Oscillator : Off
SCK period : 0.1 us
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | ################avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avr_read(): error reading address 0x0002
read operation not supported for memory "signature"
avrdude: error reading signature data for part "ATmega328P", rc=-2
avrdude: error reading signature data, rc=-2
avrdude: stk500_disable(): unknown response=0x00
avrdude done. Thank you.
Error while burning bootloader.
The problem is as follows:
error reading address
read operation not supported for memory « signature"
error reading signature data for part "ATmega328P", rc=-2
error reading signature data, rc=-2
stk500_disable(): unknown response=0x00
What does this really mean and what are the solutions to this problem ?
Here is some more information about my Elegoo Uno R3 :
- When directly connected to my compter, it is well recognized as an Arduino Uno
- I can get board info from Arduino IDE and is well recognized as an Arduino Uno but when I try to upload a sketch I have the "Not responding error" as follow :
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 "/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/Users/nicolas/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : /dev/cu.usbmodem1452301
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=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Thank you in advance!

