-----Original Message----- From: Andre Abelian To: Lawrence Lile ; pic microcontroller discussion list Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 6:27 PM Subject: Re: mplab 3.4 vs 4.0 >> The biggest advantage of MPlab 4.00 is that it crashes every 5 to 10 >> minutes. DON't use it - even Microchip told me to download v3.99 and delete >> 4.00. > > >I have been using version 4.0 came with MPLAB-ICE on CD >so far so good didn't see any problem with it. my second PC >is setup for picmaster didn't see any problem Either. > >Andre Abelian. You are lucky, then. Using Windows 95 Yet? My problems started as soon as I upgraded. It also doesn't help that I am using an obsolete ICEPIC - I doubt the ICEPIC software is as stable as MPLAB-ICE.. WIN95 (A.K.A. LOSE95) is not happy about serial communications and is jealous of anything that must get that close to it's precious hardware. I can literally start MPLAB, open a project, start the ICEPIC or PICStart programmer, and get a general protection fault within thirty seconds of starting the program almost every time. Microchip admits this is a big problem for some users on some machines and promised to do better next time. BTW has MCHIP ever gotten that WINDOWS NT version running? I'd switch to WIN NT in a minute if they do. I hear that, after the initial hairpulling and teeth gnashing it can be much more stable than LOSE95 (A.K.A WIn95)