Thank you very much for the birthday wishes.
I got the hex downloaded and ran the prompt. As you can see in my attached pic, it was not successful. I closed up the original prompt and tried it again. One question I do have....and maybe it's a dumb question...but if I switch USB ports on my computer, should my COM port change as well? No matter what USB port I have plugged in, my device manager still says COM6.
Also, I am still using the UNO R3. Should I have gone USB2UART with my atmega uno? I tried to yank the chip out but it was giving me some resistance and I didn't want to end up with two arduino "pieces" rather than an arduino.
