Impossible to burn a bootloader

Hi everyone,

I'm new at using Arduino and in particular at using the microcontroller Atmega328P-PU.

I've benn trying for days to burn the bootloader on my atmega with an arduino uno, but it doesn't want to work. I'm very disappointed because I bought it with the bootloader and it worked fine but at 1MHz and I wanted one faster for different purposes.

I've tried many tutorials. I'm sure about my wirings, because I used EXACTLY the same with an ATmega known to work and everything worked fine with it.

Here what I've done : I wanted to burn the bootloader with my arduino uno. I wired my atmega up and I configured the file boards.txt to burn a bootloader at 16mHz. It failed, and I learned after that I needed an oscillator to do such a thing. So I bought one and and two capacitors at 22pF as specified in many tutorials. I tried again and here's what I've got when I try :

avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Dec 16 2016 at 13:33:19
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\philippe\Downloads\arduino-1.8.1-windows\arduino-1.8.1\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM3
Using Programmer : stk500v1
Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
AVR Part : ATmega328P
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PC2
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :

Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack


eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : STK500
Description : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
Hardware Version: 2
Firmware Version: 1.18
Topcard : Unknown
Vtarget : 0.0 V
Varef : 0.0 V
Oscillator : Off
SCK period : 0.1 us

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying)

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying)

Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

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

avrdude done. Thank you.

I don't really understand why the oscillator is "off" along this log as I wired it on my breadboard.

If someone has an idea... Otherwise I will throw away this atmega and stay with thoses which works ^^

Thx :slight_smile:

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Ignore the "oscillator: off" - it always reports that. It may mean something with different programming tools, but not with arduino as ISP.

Typically 0x000000 indicates either a wiring problem, or the fuses are set to use an external crystal, but no such crystal is connected, or is connected improperly.