Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude or PC going berzerk after a longer while?

[E. Weddington]

On 3 May 2004 at 1:48, address@hidden wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> 
> So, after a longer while of inactivity, I do some coding, debug a bit and see 
> that the emulator OKs my code, and proceed to avrdude it into the mcu. To my 
> surprise, the device doesn't work. So I now take a more careful look at 
> what avrdude  is saying, and it gives me an error message about verification 
> failure at the first byte. For what is worth: I program the EEPROM and the 
> Flash RAM.
> 
> I use the non-native avrdude port for win32 (the one that needs the cygwin 
> dll).
> 
> So, what I did was, I rebooted the PC, and after that avrdude programmed OK.
> 

Are you using a serial or parallel programmer?

Have you tried using the experimental Win32 version?