AVR STK500 Firrmware upgrade failed - please help

[Al Borowski]

Hi all,

I was just trying to use an STK500 AVR development board. My version of
AVR studio told me I should upgrade its firmware. I did, and as luck
would have it the power lead came out during the upgrade.

Now when I turn on the STK I only get the red power LED. No other LEDs
light up, and I cannot talk to the board via AVRStudio.

I need to get this board running ASAP. Is it possible to recover from
this failure? I have a working AVRISP programmer if it will help.

thanks,

Al

 

[Steve Sousa]

"Al Borowski" <al.borowski@EraseThis.gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I was just trying to use an STK500 AVR development board. My version of
AVR studio told me I should upgrade its firmware. I did, and as luck would
have it the power lead came out during the upgrade.

Now when I turn on the STK I only get the red power LED. No other LEDs
light up, and I cannot talk to the board via AVRStudio.

I need to get this board running ASAP. Is it possible to recover from this
failure? I have a working AVRISP programmer if it will help.

thanks,

Al

Hi:

Power off, press program button, power on, let go program button, run
upgrade.exe from your C:\Program Files\Atmel\AVR Tools\STK500 folder.
If that doesn't work post here, there might still be another way.

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Steve Sousa

 

[Al Borowski]

Please disregard this message. After I rebooted my PC, it worked for
some reason.

Thanks for the reply.

Al

 

[Steve Sousa]

<ackbar9722@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Apparently the 1200 micro wasn't programmed properly. After I hooked
up it's programming pins to an AVRISP and reprogrammed that, things
started to work properly.

That was the "other way" i mentioned ;-).
Aparently the stk is vulnerable, i've seen at least a couple of 1200
screwed.
Did you have trouble findind the soft, or is it running wild now?

Best Regards

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Steve Sousa