Hey there,
I'm fairly new to arduino with a bit of a background in AVR (AVRstudio), I purchased a Mega 2560 board, downloaded the arduino IDE, decompressed the software and went through the getting started sequence.
Initially a week ago the software seemed to be working after a quick test with Blink. However after digging it up again this week and trying to do some messing around it has full stop refused to work. The IDE seems to start up correctly and windows device manager recognises the board as COM3 but every time I try to verify or upload code to the device the progress bar will fill about 1/4 and then just sit there reaching halfway after at least 10 minutes.
I turned on console output in the settings which has displayed a log with messages such as these:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.0.1\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avr-g++ -c -g -Os -Wall -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -mmcu=atmega2560 -DF_CPU=16000000L -MMD -DUSB_VID=null -DUSB_PID=null -DARDUINO=101 -IC:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.0.1\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino -IC:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.0.1\hardware\arduino\variants\mega C:\Users\PSI\AppData\Local\Temp\build6037005136344577275.tmp\Blink.cpp -o C:\Users\PSI\AppData\Local\Temp\build6037005136344577275.tmp\Blink.cpp.o"
also avrdude occasionally returns "avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout"
Any help would be much appreciated.