ColRay:
I must be doing something wrong or is the the cheap ebay board is the problem .I copied a program from Arduino Examples/servo'
When I transfered it to my board I got an error re the program name so I renamed it and now I get this message.
Arduino: 1.8.5 (Windows Store 1.8.10.0) (Windows 10), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno"
is 2048 bytes.
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
0x00 != 0x0c
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch
avrdude: verification error; content mismatchThis report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.
You most definitely are doing something wrong!
What that wrong is unknown given the limited information you have provided.
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