NEWBIE HELP?

I recently purchased a Arduino advanced kit SD IIC Servo Ultrasonic shield IR offof ebay.
connecting the LCD to test on an ARDUINO UNO I get "problem uploading to board/and or other errors when testing some of the other lcd tests < simple tests found around the web>
any suggestions?

Disconnect everything from the Arduino and try to upload.

Have you trid the blink sketch and is it working?

thanks for that!
yup blink works fine

would you recommend using the ir shield to run lcd as it does supposedly simplify matters
i have the gnd/vcc /sda /scl cable from 12c led module correctly plugged into the shield at corresponding pins <sclsda on the v5 shield
dont think anythings left out
thnks