Can i use a USB-to-RS232 Serial converter to connect to Arduino ?

Tested three different IDE versions under an XP VM environment.

1.0.6
1.56.5-r2
1.6.9

with an identical to yours CH340G board and a ProMini with the Uno bootloader installed. This was loaded by selecting the Uno board tye and then burn booloader in the IDE. Connections are:

CH340G     ProMini 
 DTR <----> DTR
 RXD <----> TXD 
 TXD <----> RXD
 VCC <----> VCC 
 CTS
 GND <----> GND

All three versions yield the same results:

Board type: Uno - Uploads and runs
Board type: Duemilanove w/328P - Uploads and runs
Board type: ProMini 5V w/328P - Uploads and runs

Based on the above, I would suspect that either you don't have a Uno bootloader installed or the fuses are set incorrectly on the target device.