I was receiving the same error until I relocated my *.asm to the MPASM directory where MPLAB executable resides. Since then, no problems. Hope that helps... Tim Crist >I've just started using MPLAB 3.22. I'm having problems with creating >and opening projects. Whenever I open a project (project file created >with 3.22), the primary file is not automatically opened for editing >and >I get a dialog box telling me "Error Opening HEX File". >Frank Richterkessing