Quote Originally Posted by Dunksterp View Post
Right, so I don't think it's actually recognising anything in the board. Either the chip or the Ostrich. I've just gone through and checked the soldering (I paid someone to do it) and two pins next to each other are shorted out. Is this a mistake? Or should they be connected?

The way they look on the tracks, the look like they shouldn't be joined?
You are correct, they should not be shorted together. Remove the short and see if that does the trick.

RBob.