AVR Dragon & Arduino (mega1280) Cannot enter programming mode

[iceblu3710]

I recently purchased an Arduino with an atmega1280 on it. I did not get it to use the Arduino IDE but just as a handy board to use with AVR Studio and my Dragon.

I purchased a new computer around the same time and it is running windows 7 64bit, I downloaded AVR Studio 5.1 and plugged in my Dragon. I upgraded to the latest firmware as it forces you to do. I then connected the Dragon to the Arduino and I get the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to enter programming mode. ispEnterProgMode: Error status received: Got 0xc0, expected 0x00, ModuleName: TCF (TCF command: Device:startSession failed.)

I have verified the ribbon cable pinouts are the same on both ends and have continuity. Pin 1 goes to Pin 1 and so forth. AVR Studio can read the 5.0V on the sense line but that is it.

I then installed libusb-win (1.6.2.0) and used avrdude to get a more descriptive error: pasebin output

I have tried to wire up an atmega8 and atmega128 on breadboard with ISP and JTAG connections and I get the same errors as above but it makes more since to troubleshoot the PCB to PCB connection issue to eliminate any mis-wireings I may have.

Any idea where to start looking for the problem???

 

[bigdogguru]

Were you ever able to use your Dragon to program the Arduino? Or did these issues first occur when you received your new computer system?

BigDog

 

[iceblu3710]

I used my dragon about two years ago on my old windows xp machine with AVR Studio 4 and it worked great, every now and then the drivers freaked out though but it was just an xp thing. I then migrated to Linux only for the next year and never had a problem with it.

This is my first time on Win7 and the first firmware upgrade on the dragon since quite a while. I have not used it with an Arduino before.

I'm trying to track down an xp machine I can install Studio 4 on and see if its just my Win7 install.