Just found time to start playing with Arduino Duemilanove 168 again. Was previously using my Mac with sw version.. oh 13 or 14 and have now moved over to my XP machine with sw v17.
The Ard powers on via USB, the old sketch is running (simple blink led 3x) but am getting the following error when uploading a sketch.
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x30
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51
found a couple references to the error on this BB ... checked preferences.txt and baud rate is 9600, com port 7.
Nothing else is hooked up to the Ard other than the USB cable.
I'd go back to my mac with the older SW, but its 1700 miles away and would like to work with it over the next two weeks while i have time.
when you do the upload do you see the blink sketch stop for a second when the board resets and the bootloader runs? You should see some action on the tx&rx leds.
I don't want to start you on a wild goose chase but is it worth checking that your drivers are up to date?
xp drivers for the usb chip on the arduino board. Have a look on the arduino installation site for a pointer.
I would say if there's no response on the arduino you the drivers aren't installed or the correct port isn't selected. This doesn't seem unreasonable if you haven't used this setup in the past.
How do you know it's com7? On my (vista) machine the port for my arduino is only visible in the tools/serial port menu when the arduino is plugged in. If you check tools/serial port without the arduino connected you don't see the port. Maybe you can use this to confirm the port.
also, on my system, I get a windows sound alert when i plug the arduino in.