Bought cheap chinese usbasp but it can't communicate with chip

[amateur_24]

I have a few 328p lieing around in my parts bin. I thought I'll see if they work.
I plugged one of them into a Uno r3 board then attached the new programmer to the icsp part aat the bottom.
After installing the driver for the programmer, I am still unable to communicate with the chip.
I even tried a known working chip that already has a bootloader which I am sure is working because of the flashing led when you apply power.

When I try programming the chip, I get the following error

avrdude: auto set sck period (because given equals null)
avrdude: error: program enable: target doesn't answer. 1
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

I can be sure the connection is correct because it's connected using a IDC connector. And it's not the wrong way round because it doesn't power up the board when in the other orientation. I tried without the chip plugged in, the power led doesn't come on.

Also the r3 board works because the led flashes when I apply power.

I am running Windows 10 with the lastest nighly build of Arduino IDE.
The programmer is using driver WinUSb 6.1 which I installed via Zadig
So why doesn't it program ?
The programming led does appear to flash when I try programming the chip so am quessing it is communicating with the programmer.

 

[danadak]

Did you check the correct firmware bootloader version in target ? You can find that
in Arduino IDE examples.

Why ATMEGA328P U-TH doesn't answer to USBasp but work fine with Arduino as ISP?

I ordered ATMEGA328P AU from China recently but I got "ATMEGA328P U-TH". which seem super problematic. I try to use USBasp to burn bootloader but it fail and show error message as shown.

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Regards, Dana.

 

[amateur_24]

it still doesn't work despite me putting in a jumper on jp3

 

[danadak]

Try libusk driver with zadig, also libusb if that does not work.


Regards, Dana.

 

[tepalia02]

If you have any other chip like an ATmega16 or Atmega32, try with that. By the way, have you installed the USBASP driver software properly?