Hello all,
I am new to the Arduino community and recently tried to load my first sketch, just the blink example to make sure everything was working. Well turns out that it isn't. I followed the getting started guide, downloaded all the latest versions of everything, that went off with out a hitch. The first time i plugged in the arduino to the computer it seemed to have the blink sketch already loaded as the LED on pin 13 started to blink. I then opened up the Arduino IDE and loaded the blink sketch again, it compiled fine but when i went to up load i got a Serial Port 'COM3' already in use. Try quitting an programs that my be using it. There is no other program that is running on that port, but none the less i tried changing the port, to 6 and then a few others, same error except with respective number. After the first time I tried uploading the sketch the the LED stopped blinking and just remains on. I then unistalled everything and tried again, this time I got an error that said something about an error sending to the arduino, it only happened once and i cant replicate. I tried yet again and got the same error about the COM port in use.
I have scoured any forum i could find with no avail. I have made sure that the correct COM ports area selected and followed everything to a T, any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!