Nano V3.3 official seems to be dead, any way to test it ?

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello.

I've 5 arduino Nano V3.3 official and they seems to be dead.
When I plug it on my computer, I hear the sound of a new device and Arduino IDE tells me one COM is avaiable.

My arduino has the ON led working.

But when I try to transfert a BLINK example it says "Uploading..." and nothing more for 1-2min.
No led TX or RX blinks.
I got this message :
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x10

I tried also with old bootloader but nothing works.

I've aslo an older nano V3.0 and this one works well with the same BLINK program.

NEXT DAY :

I had to upgrade an other nano I had (V3.0 old bootloader), so I turn my Arduino Uno into ISP and burned the bootloader of my Nano 3.0, that worked fine.

I tried exactly the same things with my 5 "defects" Nano V3.3 and I got this error :

avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

It seems the ATMEL chip is dead. Anyone can confirm it before I put those 5 into the trash please ?

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Post the FULL error!

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Hello !!

Here are the 5 errors I get when I try to burn the bootloader to my 5 nano from my Uno as IDE.
As we can see, 4 of them have the same error and 1 of them has a different error.

Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.



avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.



avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.



avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.



avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega328P is 1E 95 0F
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
Erreur lors de la gravure de la séquence d'initialisation.

When I try to download a example (Blink) in my nano (Connected in usb) I got it :

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x1c
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If you are in the UK - I can test them for you. Just pay postage.

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I'm not in UK, thanks. And I'd like to know how I can test it by myself ?

Those 5 Arduino Nano came from the trash in a technical school, so them can be dead. Anyway, I'll be sure they are dead before putting them back to trash.

How can I try to overwrite the bootloader ?
I get "Double check chip, or use -F to override this check." how can I use "-F" ?

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I would of tried an external USB to Serial, if that did not work i would of removed the 328 chips, put them on my test jig & tried the upload - on failure, I would of retried to burn the bootloader.
If this failed, then the faulty componet is the 328, I would remount a new tested chip & try the upload.

I would say that you can get clones from Aliexpress for just over £1.00 at the moment, repair is not economical.

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I tried to enable Verbose Upload in settings and try again, but I got a random signature :
0x000000 or 0x0000FF or 0x00FF00 or 0xFFFFFF randomly.

I tried with a working Nano and got the correct signature and uploading worked.

Is it possible that only the fuse or a capacitor is dead ?

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