[moolight0551]

I have another problem now! I can't get the Arduino Mega to go into the bootloader state to upload the sketch. Have tried with a spare Mega I have and both are the same. The  avrdude program tries 5 times but times out. Do I need to buy another Mega? I have read that some Megas have an improper value capacitor connected to the chip input line which prevents it from entering the correct state.

avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer