Faulty Ardunio Board - Code not being able to upload via Arduino IDE or MatLab

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I recently purchased the SparkFun Ardumoto Shield Kit and I’m having some issues with uploading my scripts to my Arduino Uno. I think it may be because the bootloader is faulty. Here’s a list of things that I tried so far to debug it.

  1. Checking all drivers updated

  2. Updating Arduino IDE to 2.3.8 version

  3. Confirmed Tx and Rx blink when trying to upload

  4. Changing USB wires

  5. Tried to run script in MatLab instead of Arduino IDE but still got similar error

Here are the error messages Arduino IDE is giving me:

Warning: attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Warning: attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
Error: unable to open port COM3 for programmer arduino
Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1

Here is the error message MatLab gives me:

FQBN:arduino:avr:uno

Please let me know if there is any other things I can try or if it would be possible to send a new Arduino Uno board.

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I’m thinking the shield is bogarting the tx/rx pins; try uploading with the shield removed from the Arduino…then after uploading the code throw it back on and see

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I tried all of it without the shield and it still gave me the same error. I even tried uploading just simple blinking LED scripts with the shield removed and it still gave me the same errors.

4

Darn

You can press the RESET button on the Arduino Uno…Do you see the LED blink 3 times quickly ? If yes, your bootloader is intact

You also might try using the older board selection “ATmega328P” and see if that helps

If the above yields no good news we’ll likely need to replace your unit

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The LED blinks 3 times quickly and the Tx flashes once really quick when I press the RESET button. Also, there is no older board selection ATmega328P on the Arduino IDE program. It detected my board as “Arduino UNO”

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Was it purchased from us? If so head over to Return Policy - SparkFun Electronics (contact vendor if purchased elsewhere) and we’ll get ya squared away