@tadawson and @Dust, Hey guys, I believe both of you are trying to help me out and in the process there has been some confusion. I did not mean to create any rift out there. I am sorry if any of my posts caused any confusion. Back to my problem, so I tried different steps for verifying and uploading the firmware on atmega16u2, and it preety much looks like it is fried. So, I have another questby shariqkhanfreelancer - Reprappers
Hello @tadawson and @dust, Thanks for your inputs. Being a novice I am learning from suggestions like yours, and by browsing other forums as well. I know being a total beginner, I can ask some very noob questions, so thanks for putting up with me. @dust You are so right saying "If your programming the 2560 bootloader... that wont make any diference" Apparently, I hadn't read this comment of yby shariqkhanfreelancer - Reprappers
Hi tadaswon and Dust, Thanks for taking out time to reply on this post. I dont think it uses a FTDI chip. Anyways, an update from my side. I've been reading forums and some posts instruct to upload a factory firmware using my Arduino UNO as ISP programmer. So I've been trying that. Will update with my findings. Thanks again for your time :-)by shariqkhanfreelancer - Reprappers
Hello All, I am using an Arduino Mega 2560 R3 (along with RAMPS for building a Prusa i3). So after building it, on powering it on, things worked fine for a while with the motors moving randomly and the arduino being detected as well. However, next time I powered the setup on for calibration, the Arduino board was not getting detected on the computer. I removed the RAMPS and tried to plug the Ardby shariqkhanfreelancer - Reprappers