AVR Newbie Needs Help Urgent plzzzzzzzzzzz

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hello

i have gone through the tutorials and i got all the necessary components

The programmer i used was from robokit

http://www.robokits.org/products/?p=pro … ompatible)

I have connected everthing as given in the tutorial

The power LED on the programmer is glowing dim wen i connected it to the parallel port

Wen i connected it to the AVR chip it is glowing brightly

But wen i click on AVR program

It is showing AVR device cannot be acessed

doubloe chek the connections it is showing

I checked all the connections using a multimeter

but can’t find what is wrong

The buffer chip on the programmer is 74HC541N

Where i am going wrong ?

Am i using a wrong software r wat

plz kindly help me

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Vendor claims it’s STK200 compatible. So if you use Atmel’s AVR Studio it’s supposed to work. Studio has a built-in programmer.

Parallel port access, as you know, is prohibited in Windows XP. The work-round is a special OS driver.

Much better to use a serial or USB port programmer.

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Then plz kindly let me know

how to gain parallel port access in windows XP

if there is any software etc…

plz kindly help me

4

giveio.sys is often used with gcc applications.

Leon