Connection of external controller ATMEGA 168 to Arduino board

Who can give me Hand?
I am working from my Laptop
Medion Akoya
Windows 8.1
Java SE
Arduino
Burn-O-matV2

Already, send programs from Laptop to Arduino board - this worked
Now, I try to connect external ATMEGA 168 to Arduino board

  1. Uploaded ArduinoISP with programmer from Laptop to Arduino board without 120 Ohm resistor
  2. Read fuses with Burn o mat Shows the following error message:

However the TX and RX LEDs on the Arduino Shows that there is some communication.
In the settings I tried several programmer options to get rid of the problem - no success.
Even with or w/o 120 ohm resistor - no success.
The external ATmega 168 I connected to Arduino board and tried with and w/o external oscillator
Power supply I used external AA cells and then changed to power supply from arduino board - no success

How should I proceed to find the failure? What could be the failure? Is the external Atmega 168 maybe damaged?