Errors trying to set fuses on bare Atmega328p

Question

I have an Atmega328p on a board that I want to program using an Arduino programmer. I've got the programmer working to program other Arduino's over ICSP header, but when trying to use the same settings to avrdude to read/set the fuses of the bare MCU with oscillator I get the following:

❯❯❯ avrdude -v -p atmega328p -b 19200 -P /dev/cu.wchusbserial213240 -c stk500v1 ⏎ master
avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Sep 18 2017 at 20:31:51
 Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
 Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch
 System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/Cellar/avrdude/6.3/etc/avrdude.conf"
 User configuration file is "/Users/viktor/.avrduderc"
 User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
 Using Port : /dev/cu.wchusbserial213240
 Using Programmer : stk500v1
 Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
 AVR Part : ATmega328P
 Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
 PAGEL : PD7
 BS2 : PC2
 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 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
 flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
 lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
 hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
 efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
 lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
 calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
 signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
 Programmer Type : STK500
 Description : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
 Hardware Version: 2
 Firmware Version: 1.18
 Topcard : Unknown
 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% 0.08s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying)
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.08s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000 (retrying)
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.08s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
 Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
 this check.
avrdude done. Thank you.

I've checked the soldering as good as I can and it seems to be right. I have a 10K pullup on reset, an oscillator with caps. I'm suspecting I might have fried the MCU when soldering or something - is there anything simple I can check?

• All PWR connections check out
• I've checked the oscillator with a scope and it isn't oscillating, but I'm thinking that is normal since it's a bare chip that I'm trying to set the fuses to use the external crystal? The oscillator is at least connected correctly.

• Gerben: Try using the "burn bootloader" function inside the IDE. That also sets the fuses.
• Viktor Hedefalk: I've done that too. The first thing that menu item does though is actually calling avrdude just like that - I think I actually looked at the verbose log in the IDE to get the params right.

Answer 1

It turned out it was a bit of bad soldering on the MCU. This same msg you'll get if just leaving the ICSP floating.

• aaa: I'm glad you found a solution, but could you accept this (your own) answer as the solution? This question just got bumped to the frontpage and actually is already solved.