Impossible to program my first arduino... (Atmega8 16PI instead of 328...)

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Hi !

I'm Axxel i'm French and I live in Barcelona, so my english won't be perfect, excuse me for the faults :*

A freind has lent to me un Arduino... :slight_smile:

The problem is firstly, i don't know what type of arduino it is because there is nothig written into the PCB who match with a version of arduino... :slight_smile:

Here there is a photo of the PCB.

The atmega have these references : ATMEGA8-16PI

Now i use it with a PC Windows 7 64bits with the corrects arduino drivers (Here screenshots) :

800×532 9.3 KB

Now when I try to program it, with correct port com selected (com 3), i have this message error with a duemilanove ATEMGA 328 selected :

Now when I try to program it, with correct port com selected (com 3), i have this message error with a Dicemilia ATMEGA 168 selected :

Now i have a LED connected to the PIN 3.

When i connect the arduino to USB, this led blincks quickly (something like 50hz) during 500msec. I wait 10 seconds an the led blanks ON-OFF automatically with a rate of 500 mecs. I think this is and older program which is in this arduino.

When I push the red button, it's look like a reset of the arduido. Exact ?

I tried with another PC with XP pro 32 bits, same problem, i try with another PC win 32 XP and the same problem.

I do this with the 0022 and I tried too with the 0018 on my 3 PCs... with the arduino drivers and the port com correctly assigned.

The question is :

  • What type of arduino I have ? :~
  • In the toobleshooting guide, we are speaking about auto-reset and wrong bootloader... I think the error can be here ? What type of bootloader I have to put into muy arduino ? :~

I'm a little bit lost, plesa can you help me ?

Thanks a lot !

Axxel.

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You have a "USB v2.0"
Look about half way down on http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Boards

Your problem is this:
The AtMega328 and 16PI are completely different. It's like running a Vista program on Windows 2000... it's not backwards-compatible.
You can also see in the error terminal, it says something like:

protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0xe0

This looks to me like the ATmega168 would return 0x14, but your 16PI is returning 0xe0.

You have three options:

  1. Ask your friend for help.
  2. Scroll to bottom of http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software and download an earlier software release. I'm not sure which one though, you'll have to figure out.
  3. Search around on google to see if someone has written a "core" for the ATmega16PI.

Good Luck!

btw English was very good! In america we are not taught foreign languages to the extent europeans are...

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OK ! Thanks for the answer !

I will look for an older version of the arduino software if one is compatible with the 16PI...

I will ask my friend how does he do ! :slight_smile:

:grin:

With google, arduino 16pi don't give helpful results for the moment ... What a strange stuff this type of device no ? :astonished:

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I fixed the problem : I had to select into the list the ultimate item : Arduino NG o older Atemga8

I don't know if this is the correct way but I think it is sufficient for me to learn the bases of Arduino :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Thanks for the infos !

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Yes... that should work. The atmega8 obviously came before the 16pi, so older firmware will be compatible with newer models. See how your friend does it, though... I'd be curious.

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Hi... It worked a part of days but now it is totally impossible for me to load a program into the arduino.

I get this error message :

I tried with Ubuntu 10.10 and with linux i can't get any conexion with the device :drooling_face:

Did this error-code is known by everyone ?

Best regards.

Axel.

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I tried it and it doesn't work too :slight_smile:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1187909552/105#115