Hi
I had the same problem with the picstart,
Read the help files, running it under win95.

Went into system,
                ports,
                com1,
                advanced port settings.
   then turned off the "use fifo buffers" option,

My picstart now works fine every time. my work with thw ProMate

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Bonner <mbonner@SUNADA.COM>
Sent: 15 July 1999 18:10
Subject: Re: Still having problems downloading to ProMate


> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >
> >         I'm still having problems downloading to ProMate from within
> > MPLAB.  I am able to download using either the old promate.exe or the
new
> > procmd.exe.  This is all through COM2 on a 486DX2-66 running WFW 3.11.
> > I've tried everything in the help files.  The download runs for awhile,
> > then stops after 0x700 or so words download.  I suspect a problem with
> > handshaking or some sort of buffer overrun.  It MIGHT be possible to fix
> > it by just slowing down the transmission, but there appears to be no
> > setting other than COM port in MPLAB.
> >         I AM able to use procmd.exe for production programming, but it's
> > sure a pain to program a quick prototype with it.  Any ideas?
> >
> I mentioned to you before that I had the same problem (but with Win9x),
> and it went away when I upgraded MPLAB.  Which software versions are you
> using?  Mine are:
>   MPLAB 4.11
>   ProMate 5.00.00
>
> Before I upgraded, sometimes it would take up to 10 attempts to download
> to the ProMate.  When I got really frustrated, I would reboot my PC and
> the download would work the first time.  I suspect you're correct that
> handshaking is the problem.
>
> --Matt
>