New to AVR/Atmel

[ohaya]

I’m following info in this thread:

what programmer to buy

Hey guys iv been reading on programmers that few members bought and need help selecting one with the cord, Also im running windows 8 on my laptop is that going to be a problem ? also things i might need downloaded thanks for the help

I got the USPASP driver and libusb installed, so now I see a libusb device in Device Manager (Win7).

I have the clip hooked up to an MCU that is on a driver.

I run avrdude:

avrdude version 6.1, URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude/\>

e:\INSTALL-FILES-ATMEL\Exploded-AVRDUDE>avrdude -p t13 -c usbasp -n

avrdude: warning: cannot set sck period. please check for usbasp firmware update
.
avrdude: error: programm enable: target doesn’t answer. 1
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=–1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

avrdude done. Thank you.

Am I supposed to have the driver powered on?

What is wrong?