Hi All:

Just had a bit of a headache with MPLAB and my PicStart Plus not wanting to
talk--
Took a while to remember the solution (all hail to Roger Marshall at
Computer Applications Tommorrow who reminded me)--but it appears to be
generic, and worth passing on to everyone else who might suffer the same
intermittent problems:

Seems there is an order that must be followed in bringing up the system:
1.      unplug power to the picstart
2.      unplug the RS232 connector to the picstart
3.      bring up MPLAB
4.      Plug power into the picstart and wait a few seconds
5.      Plug the RS232 cable into the picstart
6.      Initialize the picstart.

Comes up 100% of the time when this order is followed.  Change the order,
and the startup success rate plummets to zero.
Helps to have the latest UVEPROM installed too--version 2.01.00 according
to my notes.

Does anyone know if the changes from MPLAB 4.12 to 4.12.12 is worth the two
hour download time?

Kelly
William K. Borsum, P.E. -- OEM Dataloggers and Instrumentation Systems
<borsum@dascor.com> & <www.dascor.com>San Diego, California, USA