Today, I tried to plug my Duemilanove in and see what I could do with our bread-maker. Mind you, this was only my second project, my first one being a take-off of the Blink tutorial. My program blinked my name in morse code on the native LED on the board.
But instead of booting up smoothly, my board instantly started Morse-coding my name as soon as I hooked it up, and then I got a failed upload message telling me:
<> Problem uploading to board. See (and then it said the Arduino troubleshooting site).
<> Binary Sketch Size 1026 bytes *of a 30720 maximum)
avrdude: stk_getsync(): not in sync: resp 0x00
avrdude: stk_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51
This happened when I tried to run the Knock sketch first, but then occurred all other tries. How have I failed my Ardy?!
There was nothing connected at all... And this may be the problem; I unplugged the USB cord and then today may have plugged it into a different USB socket... Would that do it? I made sure the correct board and everything was selected.
Plugging it into another USB drive will more than likely be your problem. Especially if you've already checked the BOARD and COM port under TOOLS.
But, then again, if nothing was connected.. wouldn't it say "COM4" or whatever, not found. (I answered my own question... it does)
So it's trying to connect to the board you selected if it's giving you that error, are you SURE you've got the right board selected? (Keep in mind, it will be the same COM port if you change the USB port, so you may want to check that as well)
Other than that, I'm not really sure! Other than what Mr Mellis already pointed out, you can't have anything connected to TX or RX pins.
Best of luck, and welcome to the wonderful world of Arduino!
Okay, I did a bit of remembering... As I recall, I was hooked up to COM22 before, and now only COM1 and COM5 are available.. In addition, I think one of my drivers has uninstalled... Could that be?
