DigiTan
New Member
My long list of greivances against ATMEL seems to be growing. This time it involves my STK500 target board and the v2.00 firmware upgrade.
I upgraded to AVR Studio 4.11 "build 401" from version 4, build 171 this month. I had a lot of unexplained problems in the new IDE, but nothing critical. Immidiately though, AVR Studio started throwing a bunch of annoying messages at me saying my STK500 contained outdated v1.0A firmware and needed to be upgraded to v2.00. After a few weeks of annoying pop-up messages, I gave in and upgraded. This was an hour ago.
I followed all the upgrade instructions exactly, and watched AVR Studio upgrade and verify the firmware with an "upgrade successful" message at the end. Now whenever I try to program one of my ATTiny12's, I get this dialog...
..."Programming Flash Failed?!!" What the hell is going on here?
I tried resetting the computer, resetting the STK, reading the FLASH, and nothing works anymore. I've had the old firmware for 2 years and it's never failed me. Now I can't do anything! My ATtiny worked as recently as yesterday and has less than 100 flash writes to its credit.
It appears ATMEL is disguising viruses as firmware upgrades now. What did these jerks do to my AVR programer? And how can I clean up after them?
I upgraded to AVR Studio 4.11 "build 401" from version 4, build 171 this month. I had a lot of unexplained problems in the new IDE, but nothing critical. Immidiately though, AVR Studio started throwing a bunch of annoying messages at me saying my STK500 contained outdated v1.0A firmware and needed to be upgraded to v2.00. After a few weeks of annoying pop-up messages, I gave in and upgraded. This was an hour ago.
I followed all the upgrade instructions exactly, and watched AVR Studio upgrade and verify the firmware with an "upgrade successful" message at the end. Now whenever I try to program one of my ATTiny12's, I get this dialog...
Reading FLASH input file.. OK
Setting mode and device parameters.. OK!
Entering programming mode.. OK!
Erasing device.. OK!
Programming FLASH .. FAILED!
Leaving programming mode.. OK!
..."Programming Flash Failed?!!" What the hell is going on here?
I tried resetting the computer, resetting the STK, reading the FLASH, and nothing works anymore. I've had the old firmware for 2 years and it's never failed me. Now I can't do anything! My ATtiny worked as recently as yesterday and has less than 100 flash writes to its credit.
It appears ATMEL is disguising viruses as firmware upgrades now. What did these jerks do to my AVR programer? And how can I clean up after them?