This has been discussed previously and there is a good fix in the wiki. Here Arduino Playground - UnoWin2k Here is the quick and dirty fix. I had a problem with USB comms between the UNO and Win 2000 machine. The program does not download correctly and the IDE reports an error. Simple fix. Get US…

Windows 2000 USB issue with UNO R3

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