Trouble burning bootloader with AVRISP mkII

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Hi all.

Have just built an Arduino micro clone (ATmega32u4).
Can verify the board appears to be in working order, no shorts, powered up i have a clock on XTAL1 and XTAL2 (pins 16 & 17).
ICSP pins all correct from header to micro.

Programing tool is an AVRISP mkII connect to a Win10 PC
Latest IDE, settings board = micro, port = disregarded, programmer = AVRISP mkII
AVRISP mkII appears as all correct in device manager (source driver from microchip archive).
When clicking 'burn bootloader' the following appears...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega32u4 -cstk500v2 -Pusb -e -Ulock:w:0x3F:m -Uefuse:w:0xcb:m -Uhfuse:w:0xd8:m -Ulfuse:w:0xff:m 

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : usb
         Using Programmer              : stk500v2
avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device "usb" (0x03eb:0x2104)

avrdude done.  Thank you.

Error while burning bootloader.

Any thoughts on what the issue might be?

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v81:
source driver from microchip archive

This is your problem. AVRDUDE is not compatible with that driver. My recommendation is to switch to the libusbK driver. You can do that easily by using Zadig:

  • Download Zadig: http://zadig.akeo.ie/.
  • Plug in your USBasp
  • Start Zadig
  • From the dropdown menu, select AVRISP mkII. If it doesn't show up on the menu, then select Options > List all devices and check again.
  • Click the up or down arrows next to the Driver selection box on the right side until you see libusbK.
  • Click the "Replace Driver" button.
  • After it finishes you can close Zadig.
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Thanks pert!

I just happened to have Zadig already and bang, it works.

Interesting now though i can communicate over the USB port, but i will look into the schematic, might still need to solder more components on.

22r resistors are on the data lines under the board, but i have only soldered a handful of caps so far, and no bypass caps.

Dumped blink into it with the ICSP and getting 1s high / low on pin 13, so it's a winner.

Cheers.

::edit::
Tried LibusbK (as i use for my RTL based radio dongle) and it didn't work.
libusb-win32 did the trick.

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You're welcome. I'm glad to hear it's working now. Enjoy!
Per

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v81:
Tried LibusbK (as i use for my RTL based radio dongle) and it didn't work.
libusb-win32 did the trick.

That's odd. It is true that libusb-win32 is the recommended driver, but I've been using libusbK on my AVRISP mkII for years without a problem.

The reason I switched to libusbK is because there was a problem with the Arduino IDE's Burn Bootloader with the AVRISP mkII on Windows. The Burn Bootloader process is actually two avrdude commands (one to set fuses, the other to write the bootloader to the microcontroller), the AVRISP mkII wasn't able to handle two commands in quick succession. I found that libusbK fixed that. However, the issue was also fixed in the current version of AVRDUDE, so libusb-win32 should work just fine unless you're using an outdated version of AVRDUDE.

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So i'm not going insane!!!

I remember the issue of 2 commands in succession.

It happened to me years ago and i vaguely recall avrdude were blaming the IDE and the IDE was blaming avrdude or something.

I posted about it, but it must have been as a different user account that i lost or forgot.

Glad to hear it got sorted.

I thought the 2 command thing might have been related the the current issue, but now recall switching the driver back then as well.

(Back then i original started by installing the entire Atmel AVR Studio! was a mess!!)