AVR-Chat

On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Massimo Banzi wrote:
>
> I'm having some weird issues with an Atmega8 based board where the
> processor won't start the program unless the
> avrisp dongle is connected.
>
>
> You can see the circuit here http://www.potemkin.org/uploads/Pid/
> arduino_rs232_v2.png
>
> the rs232 interface part is not installed.
>
> I've checked and the fuses are programmed correctly (there are about
> 1500 usb boards that we sold with the same fuse settings)

I think my friend just bought one of these; I could look at it on my  
scope and see if I can see anything.
Does the unit come with a bootloader or something?