Ah yes i did switch it back to automatic afterwards. Could that be what has put it into the current state?
avrdude-GUI can read the Fuses with -P ft0 -F -B 4800, they come out as hFuse FF iFuse FF eFuse 07 Here is the output without the -F
avrdude.exe: BitBang OK
avrdude.exe: pin assign miso 3 sck 5 mosi 6 reset 7
avrdude.exe: drain OK
ft245r: bitclk 4800 -> ft baud 2400
avrdude.exe: ft245r_program_enable: failed
avrdude.exe: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
avrdude.exe done. Thank you.
I also tried reading them on my macbook, but couldn’t get the modified code (link) to compile so I switched to trying with my win xp netbook.
Thanks for your continuing help guys.