Before you could even have suggested that, I removed the resistors and the pins 4-8 and used the usb power. still the same thing on both computers.
I have made a new chip as well. i have a lot of spare parts here. lol
and avrdude still tells me it failed to detect device.
im lost...
UPDATE.... after playing around with the avrdude.conf file.. this is what i get now..
-- i've pointed out a few things in it too.
C:\toolz\AVRDude>avrdude -p m8 -F -c sp12 -U flash:w:chiip-v1_0_beta5-atmega8.he
x -U lfuse:w:0xE3:m -v
avrdude: Version 5.3.1, compiled on Feb 8 2007 at 14:26:28
Copyright  2000-2005 Brian Dean,
http://www.bdmicro.com/
System wide configuration file is "C:\toolz\AVRDude\avrdude.conf"
Using Port : lpt2
Using Programmer : sp12
AVR Part : ATMEGA8
Chip Erase delay : 10000 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 Max
W ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ---
-- ---------
eeprom 4 10 128 0 no 512 0 0 9000 90
00 0xff 0xff
flash 33 6 64 0 yes 8192 64 128 4500 45
00 0xff 0x00
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 20
00 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 20
00 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 20
00 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 4 0 0 0
0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0
0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : PPI
Description : Steve Bolt's Programmer
VCC = 4,5,6,7,8
BUFF = (not used)
RESET = 3
SCK = 2
MOSI = 9
MISO = 11
ERR LED = 0
RDY LED = 0
PGM LED = 0
VFY LED = 0
avrdude: AVR device not responding
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1