Board fried?

I was connecting the power for the Ardupilot on my aircraft when the power line slipped and hit the shield board and I heard a loud pop. :(

Now I'm unable to communicate with the board at all. Whenever I try to download programs to the board I get the following error "avrdude: stk500_cmd(): programmer is out of sync" and if I try to see view data via the serial port I just get squares.

I had everything working finally argh how frustrating!!

I'm pretty sure I fried it but you don't have the original boards in stock currently. When will you be getting more? Please tell me soon!! Thanks for your help.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Thomas J Coyle III on October 29, 2009 at 2:57pm
Jerald,

If you are referring to the Ardupilot Atmega 168 board as the "original board", then they will never be available again as they have been phased out. Presently Sparkfun has over 100 of the present Ardupilot Atmega 328 boards and they are the only ones available now.

Just a thought.

Regards,
TCIII
Permalink Reply by Jerald Brady on October 29, 2009 at 3:06pm
Thanks a lot Thomas. I forgot to check sparkfun. I am using the atmega 328 board though so it is no problem.
Permalink Reply by Jerald Brady on November 4, 2009 at 2:39pm
Anyone know if it makes a difference if i use the old red board here with the new green shield here? Thanks.

ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on November 4, 2009 at 4:35pm
What do you mean "old red board"? That's the current board. What board are you thinking of?
Permalink Reply by Jerald Brady on November 4, 2009 at 4:52pm
Sorry I saw the "new" board here and it was green so I thought you might have made hardware changes that made it superior to the red boards.

I saw that version 2 of the shields were green so I assumed it was the same for the regular boards.

Sorry about the confusion.

ModeratorPermalink Reply by Thomas J Coyle III on November 4, 2009 at 6:21pm
Jerald,

I believe that Ver 2 of the Shield boards are blue. Do they appear green to you? The Ver 1 Shield boards are red like the Ardupilot Atmega 328 boards.

Regards,
TCIII
Permalink Reply by Jerald Brady on November 4, 2009 at 6:43pm
Yeah you are absolutely right. Already got the board up and working again. Thanks for the help

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