Pololu USB AVR Programmer V2.1 does not program Ardunio NANO

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Using Arduino IDE 2.3.2. under Windows 11
Tools - board “Arduino Nano”. Port COM16 (as per Device Manager Ports for the Pololu USB AVR)
Tools - Processor - ATMega328P
Tools - Programmer - Atmel STK500 development board. (as per Pololu USB AVR instructions)
NANO connect ed to Pololu USB AVR with 6 wire ribbon supplied with Pololu USB AVR. Yes pin 1 is connected to Pin 1 on both boards.
NANO is externally powered via USB

The Arduino Sketch is example Blink
Tried to Sketch - Upload Using Programmer
And all I get is the error
avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

     System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Dirk\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

     Using Port                    : COM16
     Using Programmer              : stk500
     AVR Part                      : ATmega328P
     Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
     PAGEL                         : PD7
     BS2                           : PC2
     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  MaxW   ReadBack
       ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
       eeprom        65    20     4    0 no       1024    4      0  3600  3600 0xff 0xff
       flash         65     6   128    0 yes     32768  128    256  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
       lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
       signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

     Programmer Type : STK500V2
     Description     : Atmel STK500
     Programmer Model: STK500
     Hardware Version: 15
     Firmware Version Master : 2.10
     Topcard         : Unknown
     Vtarget         : 5.0 V
     SCK period      : 8.7 us
     Varef           : 0.0 V
     Oscillator      : Off

avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
avrdude done. Thank you.
Failed programming: uploading error: exit status 1

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Hello.

Have you ever successfully programmed that Arduino Nano board before (whether through USB or another programmer)? It looks like your target is not responding as expected to the command being sent to enter programming mode, which is usually caused by a connection issue. Could you post some pictures of your setup that show all of your connections? Do you have anything else connected to your Arduino Nano other than the programmer?

Brandon

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Brandon
Thanks for the response.
Yes all the connections were correct as per the user manual etc. The NANO was just the NANO and the programmer.
BUT… as would have to occur. The ONE NANO that I picked out my collection of 10 NANOs to do the Pololu programmer test was faulty. That particular NANO has been working fine with other programmers and USB programming. It just decided to fail communications when it was selected for the Pololu programmer test :frowning:
Using another NANO I was able to successfully upload an program with the Pololu USB ISP programmer. Much happiness.

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