There is a driver for the picstart plus and they have been working on drivers for the rest. I have no problems under 3.1, 95, or 98. At 01:37 PM 2/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >If I remember correctly, the only reason MPLAB didn't work with NT was the >serial port (NT doesn't like to let users have control of it). I thought >that had been fixed in one of the 4.x releases. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Don Hyde >To: >Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:22 pm >Subject: Re: Communication Problems in Win NT 4.0 SP 5 > > >MPLAB is supposed to be NT-compatible if and when they release the 32-bit >version (5.something, presumably), but until then it is still a 16-bit >Windoze program that only just barely works with 95 and not at all with NT. >Well, under NT, you can run the editor but none of the real tools like >programmers or emulators. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gustavo Fabian Paredes [mailto:mirgus@INFOVIA.COM.AR] >> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:25 AM >> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >> Subject: Communication Problems in Win NT 4.0 SP 5 >> >> >> I have installed the MPLAB (V 3.22.00) with windows NT 4.0 >> Service Pack 5. When I want to communicate with the PicStart >> Plus (v 1.30.00), I receive the following error message. >> >> COMMUNICATION ERROR >> COMMAND [8D] NOT ECHOED PROPERLY [AB] >> >> The same message is displayed when I want read, blank, or >> verify the device. >> When I used the PicStart Plus with Windows 95, I didn«t have >> any problems. >> >> Can you help me? >> >> PicStart Plus data: >> Product number: DV003001 >> Serial number: JIT 973819331 >> >> Serial port configuration: >> 19200 baudios >> 8 data bits >> no parity >> 1 stop bit >> hardware flow control >> Use fifo buffers (no) >> > > Larry G. Nelson Sr. mailto:L.Nelson@ieee.org http://www.ultranet.com/~nr