I bought a single Nano from Elegoo on amazon(I have had an Uno from them for a while that's working fine)
I have downloaded the needed CH34 driver, select Nano and I have tried both Old Bootloader and standard (restarting IDE with board attached), reset laptop (windows 8) and pc (windows 10) but no luck uploading a sketch to the board.
I get this error whether it's a blank sketch or not:
Arduino: 1.8.8 (Windows 8.1), Board: "Arduino Nano, ATmega328P (Old Bootloader)"
Sketch uses 3902 bytes (12%) of program storage space. Maximum is 30720 bytes.
Global variables use 68 bytes (3%) of dynamic memory, leaving 1980 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6e
Problem uploading to board. See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload for suggestions.
This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.
I'm not sure what to do, if i have left any information you like feel free to ask I shall do my best to oblige.
Your title says "Nano not showing in ports". If that's the case you will have to solve that problem; attempting to upload to the wrong port will result in the error message that you have.
Maybe a stupid question but downloading the CH340 driver is not enough Did you install it?
What does Windows device manager say when you connect the board? Under Ports (COM and LPT) you should see an entry occur when you connect and it should disappear when you disconnect.
sterretje:
Your title says "Nano not showing in ports". If that's the case you will have to solve that problem; attempting to upload to the wrong port will result in the error message that you have.
Maybe a stupid question but downloading the CH340 driver is not enough Did you install it?
What does Windows device manager say when you connect the board? Under Ports (COM and LPT) you should see an entry occur when you connect and it should disappear when you disconnect.
In reply to the top bit see that’s what I thought I’d HAVE to solve with it showing COM4 Nano for instance but nope, this board won’t upload but I already had 3 on the way at this point and they upload without NANO showing in ports(per se) just a com then number. (Sorry if that didn’t make sense)
Yeah I can see how I should have specified but yes I DID install the driver :’)
The Laptop and PC both registered the nano and that the driver was attached to that device so to say but that particular board isn’t uploading, I’m in process of sending it back but on hold if I can fix it
Nanos use a 'simple' USB-to-TTL converter. So they will only identify themselves as serial port. A clone Uno on my (Win10) system e.g. shows as USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM10).
So if it shows that, communication should be OK.
You can try the other processor options; there is a small chance that the Nano has the new bootloader (choose 328P from the processor menu) or has the 168P micro (choose that from the processor menu).
Bear in mind these are not Official Arduino boards and the quality of such “copies “ can vary a lot and the likelihood of a “dud”’is therefore higher .
Good afternoon
I recently (last week) had the same problem with a nano V3.0 clone coming from China:
Formerly I used to use 2 other original nano boards which were working perfectly, but with the option "ATmega328p (Old bootloader)" on the processor option selection menu.
I changed the "ATmega328p (old bootloader)" option to "Atmega328p", and it started working fine.
Did you install it?