I've been trying to upload a blank sketch to an Arduino Uno board and has not worked. I've tried on a friend's computer and works so it's not a cable or board issue. I tried reinstalling the Arduino IDE and my ports (COM & LPT) drivers. I am using Arduino 2.2.1 for windows 64 bit on a windows 11 laptop.
Here's the error message I've gotten:
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\tony1\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/bin/avrdude" "-CC:\Users\tony1\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -V -patmega328p -carduino "-PCOM4" -b115200 -D "-Uflash:w:C:\Users\tony1\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino\sketches\23C9E01EB51C8199B7DACDE3292C6DBA/sketch_feb5a.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\tony1\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : COM4
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: ser_open(): can't set com-state for "\\.\COM4"
avrdude done. Thank you.
Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1