george cobb wrote:
>
> I have received my picstart plus programmer and after 4 hours of swearing I
> am ready to send it all back.  The programmer isn't recognized no matter
> what I seem to do - here's the sequence of events;
>
> - I have Win95 on a NEC Versa 550 laptop - it has a com1 serial port on the ba
ck

We have found similar problems on customers' IBM ThinkPads.  In these
cases, the problem was due to the laptop's infra-red port on com1.  The
only way I was able to resolve it was to "delete" the port by removing
it in the device manager tab of system properties and then reinstalling
the port using the 'add new hardware' applet (choosing the settings
myself - ie: no autodetect).

--Matt