Verification Error On 1st Byte Uploading Sketch

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Troubleshooting
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I'm an Arduino newbie. I have a Solarbotics Freeduino SB (a Diecimila clone) which I built from a kit. I just got my Linux FTDI drivers working and now the Arduino IDE comes up and works without error. But whenever I try to upload a sketch to the board, I get the following error:

Binary sketch size: 1184 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
0x0c != 0x00
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

The first time I plugged the board into my system's USB, the LEDs flashed, the power LED came on solid and the Pin 13 LED began to flash: apparently the chip came with the 'Blink' sketch preinstalled.

When I compile and upload another sketch, such as BlinkNoDelay, all the LEDs behave as expected. The Pin 13 LED gives a brief flash before going quiet and then the Tx and Rx LEDs give a credible imitation of an extended conversation.

Then I get the error message above and the old Blink sketch resumes.

You can see the full log of an upload attempt at http://www.gooroos.com/arduino.log. Everything looks good (to my untrained eye) until verification when all of the bytes come back as zero.

I searched the forum and saw that some others had had similar problems but no solutions. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanx.

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I'd recommend asking the makers of your board, as it sounds like the hardware is not behaving properly.

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i have exactly the same problem
has anyone solved this ?

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If someone has figured this out please message me same error occuring as described above.

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The problem turned out to be that the ATMEL controller chip was from a bad batch. The vendor replaced it with a new one and now my Arduino works perfectly.