Hello all,

I'm sorry I haven't written back about my PICSTART Plus problems for a while,
 but I have
been "out of circulation" for a little while.

I tried all the changes to the hardware that I could, including using different
 COM ports
and different baud rates and I talked to the distributor that I bought it from.
 And then I
downloaded the newest version of MPLAB (v3.22.02). And the programmer hasn't
 failed
me since. It still freezes for a little while, when I tell it to program but
 rather than bringing
up a popup to say "Check cabling" I just wait for 20-30 secs and then it works
 fine. I
could be happier, because it still looks like the problem (whatever it is) is
 still there, but
that now the software is set to have more retries. But I guess I can't grumble
 too much,
after all, I must have programmed my prototyping '84 about 50 times since
 without a
single failure.

Thanks everyone for your help/suggestions. It never ceases to amaze me how
 helpful
a group of people the PICLIST really is.

Regards,

Alex Thomas
Campbell Scientific Australia
csa@ultra.net.au