Hey
A few weeks ago I decided to pick up an arduino for my new project, yesterday I found out that it's a fake. Since I can't return it anymore I decided to connect it to my pc and see how it does but whatever I do IDE just does not upload programs to it. The usb chip looks to be a CH340 (It doesn't have any writing on it but it looks like it) but in windows it shows as an FTDI and trying to install a CH340 driver makes my pc blue screen. In device manager it doesn't show any errors and I have tried another version of the FTDI driver and another version of the IDE to no avail. I have no Idea why I can't upload any programs to it using IDE.
Here's the error I'm getting:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x97
Tried it to no avail.
Still results in:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xb8
Press and release the reset button; a single short flash would indicate old bootloader, a couple of short flashes would indicate the new bootloader. I'm not sure how the Logic Green will behave.
Results in the same error message. Sometimes not restarting the IDE after the processor change results in "exit status 1".
I don't think it's a LogicGreen one. The usb chipset doesn't have any writing on it however the processor has an extremely faded text that reads "Atmel" or something.
Pressing the reset button stops the already blinking red led and releasing it continues the blinking. I think since it's a fake it was already pre uploeaded with a blinking program for QA purposes.
All Arduinos (are supposed to) come with the blink preloaded; so from that perspective you can't say that it's a fake.
The fact that the board does not give one or a few quick flashes after the reset indicates that the bootloader is not there. So you need to burn the bootloader using another Arduino or a programmer.