Hi thanks for your help, I'm trying to upload the example code blink, so it compiles fine, the output of the upload is:
avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 19:38:36
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\Arduino\arduino-1.0-windows\arduino-1.0\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : \\.\COM1
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude done. Thank you.
Do you think if I burn a new bootloader onto it, that it will work again?