Hey guys so I'm pretty new to Arduino and I've been having some trouble with my Uno MC, I decided to pick one up as a little side project in the January sales and only just freed up the time to really start using it.
The first problem is, when I hook up my Uno to my windows 64x PC using a UsbA-B cable (for power) I get a blinking YL on the Uno.
Second problem is, when I attempt to upload an example sketch to the Uno, for instance, "Blink" using the Arduino IDE I get the following error.
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x01 avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Have no idea how to fix the issue, but here's some information I know:
My board does show up in Computer Management under my COM3 port as "Arduino Uno" so I believe my drivers aren't the issue here.
I also have the correct board selected in the IDE.
I reinstalled the IDE and reset my computer after installing the drivers, none ofthe errors were fixed.
I've tried holding down the reset button on the Uno (As shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCxXwiUK-w) and that doesn't solve my issue.
Any advice?
Under Tools>Port in the IDE I inexplicably had (COM1) as my active port and not port (COM3) where my Uno actually was.
Program now successfully uploads without errors.