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Permalink Reply by Peter on July 27, 2011 at 7:36am

Hi,

 

I just changed the chip for 3 of my boards.  But I have the same problem with you.  I have Sparkfun AVR Pocket programmer.  But it doesn't work. If you already know how to do this, please let me know.

Thanks!

 

Peter

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Permalink Reply by Peter on July 27, 2011 at 8:33am

Hi Alastair,

 

Finally I've got it to work.  Actually the error I saw was okay.  I saw this error after

I tried to program bootloader from Arduino 022:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x3e000
 0x0d != 0xff              
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

But from this URL: http://www.cbxdragbike.com/arduino/bootloaderdocs/index.html

Actually the above error is normal.  And I programmed the 3 boards to work fine now.

You'll need Sparkfun AVR Pocket programmer with Arduino.  That's all.  
You just choose 2560 from board.  Then 'Burn bootloader'..
In the end, you'll see the error message that I posted above.  
But in fact, it works fine.  I programmed all 3 boards with the latest firmware.

Best,

Peter

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Permalink Reply by Alastair Seggie on July 27, 2011 at 9:00am

Hi Peter

I could not get Arduino 22 to recognise the AVRISP II otherwise it would have been a cinch. I eventually got around it by getting my other 2560 board (which was working) and reading all the code in to a hex then burning that on to the other board.

I am relatively new to Arduino and programming the AVR chips although I do have experience of the old UV erasable eproms form years ago.

I also Had to check the fuses as they need reprogramming. What I wanted to know from Chris was which bootloader was it that I needed to find in the Ardruino folders as there is only one that says 2560 in the title "stk500boot_v2_mega2560.hex" but after loading that it still did not work I also had some BAUD mismatch issues which eventually resolved by setting everything to 57600.

I would still love to know which bootloader to use and I am sure so would others.

Glad to hear you got them going.

Alastair

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Permalink Reply by Peter on July 28, 2011 at 11:08am

Hi Alastair,

 

I used the hex file that you mentioned (stk500boot_v2_mega2560.hex). 

 

At first, I tried to program with my Olimex AVR Programmer.  I could program the boards with AVR Studio but then I ran into Fuses setting problem.  So from there, I tried many fuse setting combination. I even downloaded the bootloader code and compile.  The hex file size that I compiled is only 8KB comparing to 20+KB for stk500boot_v2_mega2560.hex..   But still, I ran into fuse setting problem. 

 

In the end, I gave up the fuse combination thing and gave Sparkfun AVR programmer a try.  And it showed an error message in my second message above. Then I found that the error message is normal.  So I tried to program APM 2.21.  And it worked just by chance.

 

Best wishes,

 

Peter S.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Krader on July 28, 2011 at 2:05pm

i was wondering if you might share where you can find the chip. or do you have a part number.

thanks

 

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Permalink Reply by Alastair Seggie on July 28, 2011 at 3:12pm

Hi Michael

 

I am in the UK so I used RS but digikey or farnell in the US should have them its an Atmel ATMEGA2560-16AU. You should find them easily or try google.

 

Alastair

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Permalink Reply by Michael Krader on July 28, 2011 at 3:52pm

thank you very much.

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