new user can't get blink to work

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Troubleshooting
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I recently purchased an Arduino Duemilanove starter kit at the Maker Faire and cannot get the first program ( Blink ) to work. I installed the software and setup in my Netbook with Windows operating system and got stuck in an endless loop with the TX light blinking when I tried to perform the upload to I/O board.

Today at work I tried instalkling and running it on my Windows XP PC and got the following messages when performing the upload to I/O board:
AVRdude: STK500_getSYNC():
not in sync:resp=0x00

AVRdude: STK500_disable():
protocol error,
expect=0x14, resp=0x51

The board itself checks out OK

Any help is highly appreciated.
This is my first post ever anywhere so I apologize if I am not following accepted protocol.

Thankyou

JM12

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make sure you have installed the USB driver and that you have the correct port selected in the Arduino IDE. The troubleshooting guide has more details on this: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting

Good luck!

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I got that error when I had the wrong board selected. Make sure you select the Duemilanove w/ 328, and not the Duemilanove w/ 168. Click to change it. (This assumes your new board is a 328 - it should have a sticker saying so if it is).

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I had this problem just now and my problem was also that I had the wrong board selected. The default was 328, but it worked when I switched to 168.

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A heck of a lot of people seem to be having this problem lately. Does the program not default to the 328 anyway?