I posted this to the Microchip e-mail help line
and I thought I would post it here as well.  Any
guess as to who will answer first:
the PICLIST folks or the Microchip folks?

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I have a nice new Dell Dimension system
that I use as my development platform.
My software version numbers are as follows:

Windows 95
MPLAB/16 version 3.30.00
PICSTART PLUS version 1.40.00
PICSTART firmware version 1.20.00
PICMASTER version 3.30
  PROCESSOR version 3.3
  DISASSEMBLER version 2.00


Whenever I try to burn a windowed PIC14000 part,
the PICSTART seems to program the "program memory"
"configuration bits" and "ID locations" just fine.
However, when it trys to program the "Calibration Data"
(which I painstakingly retype each time I program
 a windowed part), I get the following error:

"Please verify serial and power connections &
reset programmer (0020,01,00,71)"

I have thoroughly read the release notes for
PICSTART Plus Version 1.40.00 and have made all
of the suggested changes to my COM1 port settings,
including disabling the "Use FIFO buffers" option.
All of this to no avail.  The PICSTART simply will
not allow me to program the Calibration Data on
my PIC14000 parts.

If I move the PICSTART to an older Win95 system
with the following software versions, it works
just fine.  This is not an acceptable situation,
however, as the other Win95 system belongs to
someone else (who is really starting to hate
seeing me!)

Windows 95
MPLAB/16 version 3.22.02
PICSTART PLUS version 1.30.00
PICSTART firmware version 1.20.00
PICMASTER version 3.20.01


I have spent more than a month trying to resolve
this problem and would appreciate any help that
anyone out there could provide.

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