AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Kenny M." <kenny782@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah I actually ran through the manual upgrade already.
> 
> The AVRISP2 must be bad, I can't get it to connect to any of these chips and everyone else seems to be out of ideas.
> If they'll give me my money back I'll just grab a USPS flat rate box and send it back for 5 bucks.
> 

Well, unfortunately, I don't have any new suggestions to add.

If you have performed a successful manual upgrade, and are still receiving an orange blinking light, then I suspect a wiring issue.  It could be on your reset line and/or the ISP interface.

If the programmer is happy with the ISP connections, but you can't program the chip, then I suspect either the wrong device is selected or the ISP frequency is set too high in AVR Studio.

If you would like to try a different programmer, I suggest the Atmel AVR Dragon.  It costs $49 from Digikey.  It will do everything the AVRISPmkII will do plus it will perform JTAG and debugWire emulation for devices with 32kB of flash or less.  I don't believe your ATtiny15L's support JTAG or debugWire, but you might want this capability for a different micro in the future.

Rick