I use a 100mhz CTX labtop with Win/95 and had intermittent failures
in communicating with the Picstart Plus.  Sometimes it would take two
or three trys to establish a connection.  I downloaded and installed
the alternate driver and communication has be rock solid ever since.

I do not know what the original problem was or what is changed in
the driver, but I am happy the it now works.

FYI, Gene.

At 10:20 PM 12/24/97 +0000, you wrote:
>In article <79c86763.349c4b0e@aol.com>, FScalini <FScalini@AOL.COM>
>writes
>>I have the same error problem.  The alternate driver from microchip helps a
>>little, but i usually have to try about 10 times before the programmer is
>>enabled and i can program the PIC.  Keep trying over and over and see what
>>happens.
>
>ditto mine - they must have had a lot of complaints if there's a design
>fault - typical of Microchip to keep quiet about it! (much like the
>unerasable code fuse 'feature)
>
>Jim
>--
>Jim Main
>
>





Gene Norris
Gnorris@earthlink.net
E. Windsor, NJ USA