AVR-Chat

Oh sorry, I got rid of the blinking orange when I did the manual upgrade the other day.
I got back to the green light but it still won't work none the less.

I'll take a look at that Dragon too though, sound like a good deal.

I appreciate all the info on this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "bit_tricks" <bit.tricks@gmail.com>
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:13:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: AVRISP -> AtTiny Communication Problem

--- 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