wolverineairsoft:
I do not know how to set the fuses, or what they should be set to work.
We are actually dealing with situation 3.
I'm afraid you are giving me a little more credit than I deserve. This is my first project with a microcontroller, so it is best to assume that I know very little. To be exact, this is a custom board that is running a Atmega168a with an external 8MHz ceramic resonator. It is basically all the components of an arduino pro mini on a custom board with a 4 bit newhaven LCD COG 2x16 display. The chip is running at 3.3V.
Do you have a reference for the process of setting the fuses through IDE or is it best to do another proceedure for setting the fuses? (say AVR Studio) Thank you for the reference for the correct fuse settings. Why are the settings different from the Mini to the Pro mini? I believe that the correct settings for me would be the "Pro Mini" settings:
Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8 MHz) w/ ATmega168
Low Fuse 0xC6
High Fuse 0xDD
Extended Fuse 0×00