I recently destroyed the chip in my diecimila with a voltage spike and decided to replace it with the ATMEGA328 with bootloader already burned by Sparkfun. After popping the new chip in and changing the board under tools in the IDE, I now get this message when trying to upload to it:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Any idea what is going on?
Thanks,
Zach
Have you checked the FTDI chip? It may have also been damaged.
What's the best way to go about testing that? Just running my multimeter across the pins I get some continuity...
Search the forum for "loop back test". (or "loopback test") Basically, you're looking for the FTDI chip to echo back what you send.
Well, I ran the test and get an echo. Any more ideas?
This is from an old post by mellis...
when you press the reset button, the L LED should flicker briefly, then shut off. It will remain off for about 6-8 seconds; this is the period during which the bootloader on the ATmega8 is waiting for a new sketch to be uploaded from the computer
Do you see the same behaviour?
Try to perform an upload just after pressing the reset button. Does that make any difference?
I remember having to use that trick with my Lilypad, but in this case the L LED doesn't even light up. I have no idea what's going on here. Will have to have my local gurus take a look at it.
Have you plugged the chip in the right way round. pin 1 with the circle should point away from the side of the board with the USB socket.
Believe me, that was the first thing I checked.