My PWM ports don't seem to work.

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi, I recently built the LED stop lamp exercise to get me back into the swing of things and that worked fine using lower PWM ports. But when I tried the multi colored LED using the 9, 10, 11 PWM ports the exercise would not work. I tried a tutorial off of youtube yesterday that would simply light the LED and scroll through the 3 colors, Red, Green, Blue. When using my analog VOM the LED does light the three colors.

I am using the Arduino UNO board and do not get any error messages that I can tell. Has anyone experienced something like this before? I updated to the latest software yesterday.

Is the board broken?

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No code, no schematic, no help.

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thanks, will post more next time.

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