Can't upload to Mini 04

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello there :slight_smile:

I am the happy owner of an Arduino MEGA 2560, and i have now purchased an Arduino Mini 04 (new one?) for use in a school project.
With the board i also purchased a USB/Seriel converter to upload sketches with.

I have a problem, where i cannot upload any sketches to the board. I'm using a button to do the actual reset (see pictures).
The program thinks for a while, then outputs this (held down shift while pressing the upload button):

avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct 22 2007 at 13:15:12
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

System wide configuration file is "/home/andreas/arduino-0022/hardware/tools/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/home/andreas/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/ttyUSB0
Using Programmer : stk500v1
Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv: [20]
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x20
avrdude: Send: Q [51] [20]
avrdude: Recv: [20]
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x20

avrdude done. Thank you.

This happens under both Ubuntu 10.04 (Netbook edition) and Windows XP SP3

Pictures:
Big picture (You can see the button)

Close up on the board:

If anyone could help with a solution, I'd be greatful :slight_smile:

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Yeah I can't do it either, I keep getting:

avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
repeating on...

3

The reset signal is missing.

4

Missing as in it's not getting reset? I've tried both with the button and just moving the wire to ground. Both times the LED goes out for a few seconds and then starts blinking again

5

No one got a solution for this?

6

Fixed the problem by following this solution (uploading works now):