C:\Users\tom>avrdude -carduino -b19200 -P\\.\COM2 -pm128 -e -v -F avrdude: Version 5.10, compiled on Jun 4 2012 at 14:16:26 Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/ Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files\Atmel\AVR Tools\AVR Toolchain\bin\avrdude.conf" Using Port : \\.\COM2 Using Programmer : arduino Overriding Baud Rate : 19200 AVR Part : ATMEGA128 Chip Erase delay : 9000 us PAGEL : PD7 BS2 : PA0 RESET disposition : dedicated RETRY pulse : SCK serial program mode : yes parallel program mode : yes Timeout : 200 StabDelay : 100 CmdexeDelay : 25 SyncLoops : 32 ByteDelay : 0 PollIndex : 3 PollValue : 0x53 Memory Detail : Block Poll Page Polled Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW Max W ReadBack ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- --- -- --------- eeprom 4 12 64 0 no 4096 8 0 9000 90 00 0xff 0xff flash 33 6 128 0 yes 131072 256 512 4500 45 00 0xff 0xff lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 90 00 0x00 0x00 hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 90 00 0x00 0x00 efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 90 00 0x00 0x00 lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 90 00 0x00 0x00 calibration 0 0 0 0 no 4 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 Programmer Type : Arduino Description : Arduino Hardware Version: 2 Firmware Version: 1.18 Topcard : Unknown Vtarget : 0.0 V Varef : 0.0 V Oscillator : Off SCK period : 0.1 us avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature. avrdude: Expected signature for ATMEGA128 is 1E 97 02 avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 0 avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0 avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0 avrdude: erasing chip avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 0 avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0 avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0 avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK avrdude done. Thank you. C:\Users\tom>avrdude -carduino -b19200 -P\\.\COM2 -pm128 -e -F avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature. avrdude: Expected signature for ATMEGA128 is 1E 97 02 avrdude: erasing chip avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK avrdude done. Thank you.