problems to upload sketch to arduino mega 2560

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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hi everyone, I have a problem to upload my sketch on my arduino mega 2560. my sketch uses a serial comunication using serial port 0 and 1, when i'm trying to upload the sketch to my board, the IDE shows a message: upload to I/O, this operation might take a few seconds, but in my case, this takes several hours, later the IDE shows this message

avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
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avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout

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if anybody can help me, it be would appreciate it. thanks

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Next time google "STUFF THAT YOU WANNA BUY PROBLEMS"
because there are tons of problems with mega (if you google it)
It will save you some $$$, trust me...

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try to choose a different programmer in arduino application.
This was the problem for me, with the default programmer, because it don't reset the AVR.
I use now USBasp, and works fine