Brand new Arduino pro 328 doesn't work

Hello,

I received on the mail my two Arduino pro 328 boards that I ordered from sparkfun.com. I installed the driver, connected one board to my PC, and followed the instructions to get the blink program running. It work just fine. Then, I unplugged the board and plugged in the other one. Did not work. I followed the instructions on the troubleshooting page to no avail. So, I followed the same start up procedure to test the board in my netbook. Still no luck. I unplugged the board from the netbook, and plugged in and reprogrammed the first board from the netbook too. No problem.

I am new to this system platform, so I will appreciate any suggestions. Could it be that the one board I am unable to program is faulty? Could it be a matter of it having the wrong bootloader? My PC runs Windows XP. I’m using the Arduino IDE downloaded from this website.

This is the output I get when I try to program the board:

avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct 11 2007 at 19:12:32

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean.

System wide configuration file is “C:\Documents and Settings\X\Desktop\arduino-0017\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf”

Using Port : \.\COM7

Using Programmer : stk500v1

Overriding Baud Rate : 57600

avrdude: ser_open(): setting dtr

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: Recv:

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

avrdude: Send: Q [51] [20]

avrdude: Recv:

avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

avrdude done. Thank you.

Thanks in advance

I’m having what seems to be the same problem. Looking for a solution.

I have a Duemilanove which I can upload sketches to no problem.

I just received an Mini Arduino Pro 5V/16MHz with a 5V FDTI breakout.

When I try and upload a sketch, I get this error:

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

I also tried using the Duemilanove to upload sketches to the Mini but get the same error. (Removed chip, tied reset, gnd, 5v, rx, tx to mini)

How do I rule out a bad chip vs a bad/missing bootloader etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any suggestions.