ok first I want to say thank you for taking the time to help me work on this, it is truly appreciated.
However I am not getting any luck :(
when I said I was using Arduino as ISP I am referring to the setting in the IDE the board is simply plugged into my Windows 10 X64 PC via USB.
I changed that setting to AVRISP and AVRISP mkII and tried each one with CTRL+SHIFT+U
no luck :(
It feels like the Arduino IDE is communicating at the wrong baud rate but I cant see where to change that in the system.
However I am not getting any luck :(
when I said I was using Arduino as ISP I am referring to the setting in the IDE the board is simply plugged into my Windows 10 X64 PC via USB.
I changed that setting to AVRISP and AVRISP mkII and tried each one with CTRL+SHIFT+U
no luck :(
It feels like the Arduino IDE is communicating at the wrong baud rate but I cant see where to change that in the system.