Fixed serial faure nano atmega 328p is not a nano board on the list but a ATmega328 daaaa

[wilsonintexas]

On amazon i have bought several batches of Arduino Nanos. I recently bought a few more when i blew one when fiddling with it in a metal electrical box. (Printed a plastic box)

The new ones were giving me serial communication errors. I tried all of the fixes like driver updates, even tried to load via rst port. Nothing was working.

Then i looked at what i had bought closer. It was called a nano, even had nano stenciled on it. But the description was for a
“Nano V3.0 ATmega328P Nano Board CH340 5V 16M Micro Microcontroller”

So i switched the board type to ATmega328p

It worked.

A lot of the fixes said check board type. I thought i had, BUT a nano ATmega328p is not a Nano on the board type. It is a Atmega328.

Newbe error, but the atmega was greyed out and did not have nano in front of it. I thought it was a completly differnt board, since i bought a nano.

Again i am a newbe and thought all nanos were equal.

[Budvar10]

Genuine Arduino Nano uses FTDI FT232 chip as USB/serial converter, not CH340. The main chip is ATmega328P. Nano with CH340 is definitely a clone but they also have FT232. The main chip can be ATmega328 (without P), or ATmega168P etc.

[sterretje]

Nanos use generic serial-to-usb converters so they can't be recognised as Nanos. There are ways to do it but in that case it will apply to anything that has that same serial-to-usb converter.