stray \ 342 in program ?

Hi.

I have have checked in the tools menu, and it states i have connected a Arduino UNO, it is on Com port 8 and the programmer is set to ArduinoISP.

I have a spare UNO, i connected it up to my pc, and immediately on the Screen came up a window saying new drivers found and successfully downloaded, but when i came to upload the sketch, i have the same alarm fault again ??

I have downloaded that Driver you gave me into the driver folder of my DELL FOLDER. things are still the same still the same.

One thing i have noticed is when you select TOOLS - port there seems to be only one Port setting on offer, if i pull out the serial cable, then reconnect, i sometimes get either com, 1,4,6 or 8 available, if i click on any of these, that com port is displayed in the Tools menu , but i still get the same error message.

Ray