External ATmega328p-pu stopped working

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I have a ATmega328p-pu. I programmed it using the Minimal Circuit of this tutorial.

I burned the boatloader on the microcontroler. I uploaded a couple of sketches using the way of uploading the bootloader(because i have a arduino uno smd). First worked fine but then....it stopped working i got this error:

avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

I double checked the connections. Nothing wrong. I looked on forums but couldn't find it. I tried to find out how to use that -F thing. But couldn't find that as wel.

Can anyboady tell me how to solve this problem? Is there any way I can find out if the chip is damaged? Or can i maybe reset it to factory settings Or erase the eeprom memory?

plz help

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avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000

That could mean a bad connection in MISO or SCK or Reset or it might mean the crystal oscillator isn't working.

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I am not using any. I just have the chip on a breadboard an the wires connected.

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If the chip has previously been burned with a regular Arduino bootloader it will need a crystal to be re-programmed. The chip can't parse the serial programming commands without a working system clock.

There is a version of ArduinoISP from adafruit that generates an 8MHz clock on Pin 9. You can connect Pin 9 to the XTL1 pin of the target ATmega to give it a working system clock even without a crystal. GitHub - adafruit/ArduinoISP: A fork of the ArduinoISP that has 8mhz output clock

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Thanks for that one it worked pritty well. I can upload again. But if i use the blink sketch en change the first delay to 3000 then it stays 5 sec on instead of 3 sec. If I upload the hello world lcd sketch then it dusn't display anything. Is that because of the clock? Will it work normaly again if I buy a uno rev 3 and put the chip in the ic socket?

my configuration file:

##############################################################

atmega328bb.name=ATmega328 on a breadboard

atmega328bb.upload.using=arduino:arduinoisp
atmega328bb.upload.maximum_size=32256
atmega328bb.upload.speed=115200

atmega328bb.bootloader.low_fuses=0xff
atmega328bb.bootloader.high_fuses=0xde
atmega328bb.bootloader.extended_fuses=0x05
atmega328bb.bootloader.path=optiboot
atmega328bb.bootloader.file=optiboot_atmega328.hex
atmega328bb.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x3F
atmega328bb.bootloader.lock_bits=0x0F

atmega328bb.build.mcu=atmega328p
atmega328bb.build.f_cpu=16000000L
atmega328bb.build.core=arduino:arduino
atmega328bb.build.variant=standard

or do I maybe have to change anything of that?

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It dus work again. I changed a couple of things in the boards.txt back to normal and rechecked the wiring and saw that I wired the whole lcd the wrong way.

Thanks for all your help.

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As you must have figured out, the internal RC clock is 8 MHz so when you set F_CPU to 16000000 everything runs at half speed.