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Burn device signature?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:58 pm
by se4587
Hi folks. I love this HV rescue shield; it has saved my butt many times :)

Is there a way to set/change the device signature? I have an atmega328 that is reporting it's device signature as "0x5E 0xD7 0x54". I'd like to change that to the proper signature, 1E 95 14. The chip may be damaged, but I'd like to try changing the signature before I chuck it in the trash.

Thanks!
Seth

Re: Burn device signature?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:07 pm
by mightyohm
Hi Seth,

As far as I know, it is not possible to change the device signature of the AVR.

Re: Burn device signature?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:13 pm
by se4587
Ok, but I found this link

http://arduino.stackexchange.com/questi ... i-fix-that

which uses the command line avrdude program and it looks like they were able to do that...but I don't wanna risk using the command line and doing something wrong... :)

Could somebody use that information and tweak the HV rescue shield program to allow changing those signature bytes?

Re: Burn device signature?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:19 pm
by se4587
Oops, apparently I missed the part about it not actually being writeable...apparently that address is read-only...

well, looks like I have a dud 328 then...

Re: Burn device signature?

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:12 am
by mightyohm
You are correct, those bits are read only. Sorry about that.