Burning bootloader on ATMEGA328P-AN using Arduino Uno

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Hi, i've seen couple topics on this forum about this problem but none of them helped me.

I'm trying to burn bootloader on my Atmega328-P chip on my custom board. Firstly i was trying with some fake arduino board which gave me error while burning bootloader with device signature (it was something like 0x000000).
I changed board for original arduino uno and coupled grounds and with good connections i was getting device signature 0x808080 (better than 0x000000 or 0xffffff but still not it). I will post full message while burning butloader below:

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\lolaju\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

     Using Port                    : COM4
     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 | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x808080
avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.

avrdude done. Thank you.

Failed chip erase: uploading error: exit status 1

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Why do you need to replace the factory-installed bootloader?

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I mean i want to install the arduino bootloader so i can upload arduino projects on this chip

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Do you have a bare chip or something like an UNO

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Did you follow the advice given by avrdude? Use the -F option.

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Picked…

  1. the right port?
  2. right programmer?

Also highly recommended is to not choose an Arduino (Uno, Nano etc) boot loader but install Minicore and use that instead.

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Could brick something.

Override usually only works in movies :slight_smile:

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if we're talking about this chip on which i want to install bootloader it is on some kind of board with relayes, diodes etc (project made by me)

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port and programmer are fine, i've checked port on device manager and i'm using this arduino as isp option with isp program loaded on uno. I will try with minicore tommorow and let you know if this helped.

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I suspect that your custom design is bad.

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I installed minicore and i'm still getting same error. You can see my settings below. I think they are okay.

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It is possible but i dont know what can be wrong with my board

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Could be a hundred different things but without seeing a schematic and PCB layout we can't help

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Is it possible that your 328P is a fake one?

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It doesn't seem this is right for Arduino as ISP.

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There are 2 things that are different from layout:

  • i didn't checked oscillators pinout and had to "repair" it (oscillator is diagonal when you're looking on his pins and i have horizontal on layout),
  • i made a little change to part of circuit which turns on/off relays but i don't think it would interfere microcontrolers work (the change is not on schematic).

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i don't think so because i bought it from TME (it is good source for me)

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what do you mean by that?

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I don't see an ICSP connector.
How were you connecting the programmer?

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In the v1.8 IDE, before clicking on Burn Bootloader, on the line immediately above that, I have to set the Programmer to be "Arduino as ISP" if that's what I'm using.

I also use a GUI front-end for AVRdude called AVRdudess. Using it to read out the contents of a Nano into a hex file, it produces this:

>>>: avrdude.exe -c arduino_as_isp -p m328p -P COM3 -v -U flash:r:"C:\Users\Owner\Downloads\fred.hex":i 
Avrdude version 8.0
Copyright see https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/AUTHORS

System wide configuration file is C:\Arduino\AVRDudess\avrdude.conf

Using port            : COM3
Using programmer      : arduino_as_isp
Programmer baud rate  : 19200
AVR part              : ATmega328P
Programming modes     : SPM, ISP, HVPP, debugWIRE
Programmer type       : STK500
Description           : AVR as programmer with Arduino-as-ISP FW
HW Version            : 2
FW Version            : 1.18
Topcard               : Unknown
SCK period            : 0.0 us
XTAL frequency        : 7.372800 MHz

AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Device signature = 1E 95 0F (ATmega328P, ATA6614Q, LGT8F328P)
Reading flash memory ...
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 19.75s
Writing 32670 bytes to output file fred.hex

Avrdude done.  Thank you.

I don't know if Arduino as ISP is different from STK500.