Why bourduino not work?

[Hamradio2008]

Why bourduino not work? Red light blink a few times when "upload to I/O board" but error shown in picture...

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[adafruit_support_bill]

Do you have the right board type selected in the "Tools" menu? Assuming you have a recent version with the 328 chip, you should select "Duemilanove or Nano w/ Atmega 328".

[Hamradio2008]

Yes I have the right board and com port selected. Still not work.

[adafruit_support_bill]

What are the LEDs doing during the download attampt?

Edit the preferences.txt file (in Documents and Settings/<USERNAME>/Application Data/Arduino) and set upload.verbose to true. (Be sure to close the Arduino software before doing this). Then restart, try to download again and report what you see.
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[Hamradio2008]

I am using Windows 7, the file directories and paths you suggested don't exist. I did find the "preferences.txt" file and the "upload.verbose" statement was not found within it.

First can I ask basic question is; Does the Bourduino work with Windows 7?

From my internet googles and searches indicate others have reported unresolved problems using Windows 7 and the Bourduino as well.

I have an old Windows XP system out in the garage I haven't gotten it out to start up and try.

Any info on Windows 7 would be helpful, and by the way the UNO works with Windows 7.

Please advise.

[adafruit_support_bill]

Windows 7 does obfuscate those directory paths. The first thing I do on a new system is reset the default folder settings so that I can see where my files actually are.
The upload.verbose statement is not in the file by default, you have to add it.

Does the Bourduino work with Windows 7?

I have programmed several Boarduinos from my Windows 7 64-bit machine - as recently as last evening. I use the FTDI cables from the Adafruit Store. I believe I had to download the correct driver from the FTDI site. http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

[Hamradio2008]

I am using the adfruit FTDI board (see picture above) I have tried adding the upload.verbose=true statement as well. I noticed in my search for the file preferences.txt that it is in two locations. Please if you could give me your path to the location for the preferences.txt file while maybe not exactly the same path as mine it will give me some better idea what to todo to make it work.

[adafruit_support_bill]

On the Win7 machine, the file is in: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Arduino
(Not sure why it sticks it in "Roaming".)

Also, with earlier versions of the IDE, there is a file by that name in the /lib folder in your Arduino install path. That is not the one you want to edit.

I haven't actually had a need to try the "verbose" setting in v21. But in previous versions it gave you a bit more information about what was going on during the upload attempt.

[Hamradio2008]

ok, I added the "upload.verbose=true" and ,,, here is the result...

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[adafruit]

did it ever work? did you Set RTS on Close?

[Hamradio2008]

did it ever work?

Negative

did you Set RTS on Close?

How do that?

[Hamradio2008]

FWIW pic of bourds...

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[adafruit]

http://www.ladyada.net/make/boarduino/use.html

[Hamradio2008]

http://www.ladyada.net/make/boarduino/use.html

Still not working, I will pick it up later thanks for the help so far!

[Hamradio2008]

Any news on how to make work for Windows 7 ?? All info that I know is shown in thread and still not working. Thanks?