Marlin FW update failing (1 reply)

Hi I spent all day trying different solutions and have decided to ask for help. I do have experience of firmware updates and chip programming from years ago so not completely dumb and noob but I dont have much time to try all avenues.

I have an A8 and the firmware wouldnt update via usb (no bootloader) so I ordered a gangsta nano 3 off ebay (Atmega328) to follow this tutorial... This Tutorial......

I wired it all up a which I believe is correct as its identified and I have been able to write the ISP to the nano. albeit with a 10uf capacitor connecting RST and GND. I have managed to get as far as wrecking my bootlader completely and my board is now bricked, I am now stuck at running the Marlin sketch, it wont run it I will include the screen log.

I would appreciate knowing if its worth sticking with the nano or whether I should get a usbasp as I think its cos my nano is an aftermarket one? I have tried a few variable like with/without capacitor, different baud speeds ( as I was getting sync errors, I have tried pressing reset button at different timings, and I have used the (old bootlader) option to varying success too, I must have got through at some point as I have bricked the board,

please can someone shed some light thanks

avrdude: Version 6.3-20171130
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, [www.bdmicro.com]
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : COM6
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 57600
         AVR Part                      : ATmega1284P
         Chip Erase delay              : 55000 us
         PAGEL                         : PD7
         BS2                           : PA0
         RESET disposition             : dedicated
         RETRY pulse                   : SCK
         serial program mode           : yes
         parallel program mode         : yes
         Timeout                       : 200
         StabDelay                     : 100
         CmdexeDelay                   : 25
         SyncLoops                     : 32
         ByteDelay                     : 0
         PollIndex                     : 3
         PollValue                     : 0x53
         Memory Detail                 :

                                  Block Poll               Page                       Polled
           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           eeprom        65    10   128    0 no       4096    8      0  9000  9000 0xff 0xff
           flash         65    10   256    0 yes    131072  256    512  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
           lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
           hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
           efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
           calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

         Programmer Type : Arduino
         Description     : Arduino
         Hardware Version: 2
         Firmware Version: 1.16
An error occurred while uploading the sketch
         Vtarget         : 0.0 V
         Varef           : 0.0 V
         Oscillator      : Off
         SCK period      : 0.1 us

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega1284P is 1E 97 05
         Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.

avrdude done.  Thank you.