Burn device signature?

[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

[mightyohm]

Hi Seth,

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

[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?

[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...

[mightyohm]

You are correct, those bits are read only. Sorry about that.