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I executed the following steps in order to burn a bootloader into an AVR328P-PU chip I acquired on ebay.

  1. I have set up AVR328P-PU on a breadboard as described here: http://arduino.cc/en/main/standalone

  2. I have uploaded the ArduinoISP sketch into Arduion Uno.

  3. Connected the wires in a way described here http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard ( the setup with external clock)

  4. Chose "Tools -> Programmer -> Arduion as ISP" in the IDE.

  5. Chose "Burn Bootloader" from the IDE.

  6. Got and error avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature., noticed that I connected the wires in the wrong order.

  7. Fixed the wired, but still got the error:

avrdude: Version 6.0.1

 System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files\Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf" Using Port : COM3 Using Programmer : stk500v1 Overriding Baud Rate : 19200 AVR Part : ATmega328P Chip Erase delay : 9000 us PAGEL : PD7 BS2 : PC2 RESET disposition : dedicated RETRY pulse : SCK serial program mode : yes parallel program mode : yes Timeout : 200 StabDelay : 100 CmdexeDelay : 25 SyncLoops : 32 ByteDelay : 0 PollIndex : 3 PollValue : 0x53 Memory Detail : Block Poll Page Polled Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- --------- eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 Programmer Type : STK500 Description : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware Hardware Version: 2 Firmware Version: 1.18 Topcard : Unknown Vtarget : 0.0 V Varef : 0.0 V Oscillator : Off SCK period : 0.1 us avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.06s avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying) Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.05s avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying) Error while burning bootloader. Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.07s avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature. Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override this check. avrdude done. Thank you.

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My questions

  1. I understand that this can be caused by poor breadboard quality. How can I test this hypothesis before buying new breadboard?

  2. Could the wrong wiring from step 5 ruin the chip?

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  • Did you try setting up a crystal? Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 13:06
  • @Ignacio Yes, I set it up exactly like in step 1. Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 13:29
  • Direct link to how the setup looks like: arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduinobb_08.jpg Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 13:44
  • * Are +5v and Gnd carried across the breadboard to both sets of power rails? * In the article you linked, the Arduino provides power to the chip you're trying to program - so why is there a regulator on the breadboard? * If the regulator is the chip's power supply, is its input voltage high enough for it to regulate, and are the grounds of both supplies (the Arduino and your breadboard) board connected to each other? * To your question 2, Maybe yes ... exactly what were the wrongly ordered connections? Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 14:55
  • @JRobert I have uploaded photos of the setup. The regulator is there, but for the bootloader burning, I power the breadboard from the Arduino. The wrongly ordered connection was swapping of the blue and yellow wires (SCK <-> MOSI). Could this ruin the chip? Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 16:16

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Being from eBay, I would assume the seller "bricked" the chip beyond his/her capability to fix. Fortunately, you know about stack exchange!

My immediate suggestion is to find, borrow or build a high-voltage programmer. This is a special programmer that can un-brick the chip no matter what's been done to it. The concept is easy, but you need to protect the programmer's pins from the 12v reset signal.

Googling "avr high voltage programmer" gives several useful links. I'll get the actual links when I get back to a real computer.

Ok, so life got in the way, sorry about that. This is the one I built which worked perfectly: MightyOhm

However hooking up the AVR to a "high voltage programmer" is well documented in the data sheets. These should be very much similar circuits on Google.

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I had this exact same problem. It turned out that my atmega328p had the wrong fuses. I am not sure how to solve the problem using the default ardiuino ide, however I was able to plug my ArduinoISP into a linux machine (just plug in the usb) and correctly profram the fuses on a slave atmega328p to solve the problem:

The guide here gets you started, however it missing some of the fuses: http://heliosoph.mit-links.info/arduinoisp-reading-writing-fuses-atmega328p/

The full command to set the default fuses is something like this:

avrdude -P /dev/ttyACM0 -b 19200 -c arduino -p m328p -U lfuse:w:0xFF:m -U hfuse:w:0xDE:m -U efuse:w:0x05:m
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