Problem with uploading to UNO

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi everyone, I have a little problem. I was trying to upload a bootloader then the sketch on a new 328P but failed.
First I used this tutorial Adafruit ISP Tutorial, which I have used in the past and it worked great, but I mistakenly didn't connect D9 on the arduino to pin 9 on the chip but the corresponding pin to D9(pin 15) on the chip, and it didn't work(I haven't tried to make the proper connections yet). I decided that it doesn't work because I have everything on the PCB so I decided to to follow another tutorial ArduinoISP, so I connected the chip with the crystal, capacitors and everything to a breadboard including a 10uF capacitor from reset to GND, and it still didn't work.
The next day I tried to upload the Arduino ISP sketch to the UNO and it gave me the following error:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00. I have seen this error before but only when I haven't had installed the USB drivers. The day before that I got another error which in the end was 0xe0 instead of 0x00 and I found out that I can fix it with pressing the reset button(but I still couldn't upload anything to the new chip).
I have searched through the forum and did the following:I deleted everything arduino related in my pc(program files and such), reinstalled the IDE,when I pluged the UNO in it showed me that the PC recognizes it, I made the loop test,I short-circuited the pins of the mega8u2, I changed the USB cable and I watched closely what happens with the RX,TX pins when trying to upload something, also I tried shift + upload but it gives me the usb not found error.

The RX and TX pins are acting like this: When I made the loop test when I press enter to send something both of them flash on once and I don't get a echo back. When I try to upload a program the RX pin only flashes 3 times.

I don't know what or if I have damaged on the board/chip but I'm 99,9% sure I haven't short circuited both my 328P(the one on the UNO and the new one) since the old one worked on the board. If it matters on the PCB I have, there is a crystal with capacitors and almost every pin is connected. I am not using pins 2 and 3, and pins 16 to 19 have a separate connector so they are not influenced by anything.

I hope someone can help me with this problem. As I said I have done this before successfully but now I just don't know what happened. :frowning: (P.S. Worst case scenario, my new UNO, MEGA2560 and ProMini are coming in just 2 weeks :smiley: )

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  1. The capacitor on the reset should be 0.1uF not 10uF.

Also look here for how to breadboard it, and here for an ICSP loading system.

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Ok, but what about the fact that when I try to upload it simply gives me the error, even when I try to upload the blink sketch on a empty board.

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Define "empty board". Does that mean an Uno with nothing other than USB connected to it, or a board with no Atmega328 plugged in? If the first, post a link to where you got it from.

Or does it mean with an Atmega328 on a bread board?

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I have the Arduino Uno r2 with the ATmega328P on it, I have worked with it for 4 years and it worked perfectly, after all the operations I described above, now the board gives me that error : USB plugged in and when I try to upload something on the Uno I get the error, thats it and I can't figure out why. I got the board from eBay. This is the board http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/ArduinoUno_r2_front450px.jpg and like this with the original chip it is not working now.

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Can you post a picture of the actual board you have?

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As much as I don't want to confess this, but I just picked up the board to take a picture and saw that I have put the 328P the other way around... So it works like it should. Sorry I took from your precious time. I won't forgive myself for this mistake...